{"id":256119,"date":"2025-10-28T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256119\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:04:08","slug":"is-new-yorks-zohran-mamdani-the-future-of-the-struggling-us-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256119\/","title":{"rendered":"Is New York\u2019s Zohran Mamdani the future of the struggling US Democratic Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohran Mamdani may not solve all of the beleaguered US Democrats\u2019 problems, but the surprise front-runner in the race for New York mayor does offer hints on how to win back voters and power.<\/p>\n

The Democrats \u2013 shut out of power in the White House and both chambers of Congress \u2013 were seen negatively by 63 per cent of US voters, according to a July poll in The Wall Street Journal, the party\u2019s lowest approval rating in 30 years.<\/p>\n

John Kane, a professor of political science at New York University, said the party needed to reconnect with parts of their traditional base, such as lower-income Americans and young voters.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, a 34-year-old self-described democratic socialist, has developed a plan aimed at luring working-class people and young adults, for whom famously expensive New York was becoming harder and harder to call home.<\/p>\n

\"ZohranZohran Mamdani at a rally on Sunday with US Senator Bernie Sanders and US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

His platform\u2019s highlights include a freeze on rent hikes as well as free bus service and day care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani may not solve all of the beleaguered US Democrats\u2019 problems, but the surprise front-runner in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,10764,46961,1340,12,138692,21449,2005,138693,43818,3,2186,720,21784,21,19,22,20,25,138694,138691,24,10766],"class_list":["post-256119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kane","tag-johns-hopkins-university","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mayor","tag-new-york-university","tag-news","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-uganda","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-democrats","tag-us-voters","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}