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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/nyregion/mamdani-politics-influence.html

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies swept a series of congressional primaries in New York City on Tuesday in a remarkable show of strength for the insurgent left that sent shock waves through the Democratic Party.

Mr. Mamdani’s candidates toppled a pair of incumbents backed by the city’s political establishment, including major labor unions and the House Democratic leader. Another candidate backed by the mayor won an open House seat, and a handful of democratic socialist challengers he supported were winning down the ballot.

For months, Mr. Mamdani threw himself and his energized political organization into the three marquee congressional contests, campaigning late into the night in the race’s final days and calling the election a referendum on the direction of the party.

All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani’s progressive economic platform, and they each ran campaigns that focused intently on ending American support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on the issue, even in New York.

Late Tuesday night, the mayor stood beaming at a victory party in Brooklyn, where supporters chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “D.S.A.” After embracing many of the same advisers who led his own successful campaign last year, he declared “a new chapter in our party’s history.”

“A year ago, it was not the end of a political movement,” he said. “It was the beginning.”

Mr. Mamdani’s deep involvement amounted to an audacious gamble for a brand-new mayor trying to lead an already fractious city. He alienated key allies along the way, but the payoffs were far-reaching.

At home, the outcome will now cement him as the unquestioned political kingmaker of the nation’s cultural and financial capital and the Democratic Socialists of America as a formidable force.
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The results also shook the foundations of the Democratic Party far beyond the five boroughs. When they are certified, Mr. Mamdani, 34, and his movement will be on track to double the number of socialists in Congress from two to four. The outcome will also force a Democratic Party, already searching for its identity, to reckon with its ascendant, unapologetic left.

“It’s seismic,” said Jon Paul Lupo, a Democratic consultant who was a top adviser to the city’s last progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio.

The races do not necessarily suggest Mr. Mamdani has expanded his appeal. Each of the contests in which he endorsed took place in areas where the mayor won comfortably in last year’s election and remains deeply popular.

But Tuesday’s results showed two things about his young mayoralty. Mr. Mamdani has a high tolerance for political risk-taking, well beyond that of any of his modern predecessors. And, at least for now, he has the ability to transfer his high-wattage political brand onto other candidates in a way that only a few politicians in any office have been able to.

Brad Lander, 56, a close ally whom Mr. Mamdani urged to run for Congress, ran up a staggering 30-point margin in the affluent 10th District in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. He defeated Representative Daniel Goldman, a wealthy Levi Strauss heir who had opposed the mayor in last year’s elections and had close ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby.

Claire Valdez, 36, a little-known state assemblywoman also recruited by Mr. Mamdani to run, ran up larger than expected margins for the open seat in the Seventh District in a gentrifying swath of Brooklyn and Queens so far left it has been nicknamed the “Commie Corridor.”
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She defeated Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, who had far deeper roots in the district and the support of the popular congresswoman, Representative Nydia Velázquez, who is retiring; the left-leaning Working Families Party; and nearly every major labor union in the city.

And Mr. Mamdani’s allies even won in the predominantly Black and Dominican 13th District in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. In perhaps the night’s most surprising victory, Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, another democratic socialist who entered the race as a political unknown, narrowly knocked off Representative Adriano Espaillat, the influential chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

“This is a wake-up call,” said Letitia James, the state’s progressive attorney general, who supported Mr. Mamdani’s mayoral campaign but ended up opposed to him on Tuesday.

“Obviously, there’s some hurt feelings tonight, particular in communities of color,” she said, adding, “What we have to do is sit down and work with the left-leaning part of the party and see if we can come to some sort of understanding going forward.”

Where previous mayors have taken a wide berth around intraparty primaries, Mr. Mamdani dove in. Before he even clinched his own mayoral win, he began recruiting candidates to run for seats he felt were ripe for leftist wins. He headlined fund-raisers, appeared in ads and dispatched his top political advisers to run two of the campaigns.

In the race’s final days, Mr. Mamdani exhausted himself shuttling between events with Ms. Valdez and Ms. Avila Chevalier, who were in the closest races. Wherever the mayor went, large crowds seemed to materialize.
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The outcome on Tuesday could pose particular problems for Mr. Jeffries, the New Yorker in line to become speaker if Democrats reclaim control of the House this year. Ms. Valdez and Ms. Avila Chevalier have not committed to supporting Mr. Jeffries’s leadership bid and could become persistent thorns in his side.

Democrats aligned with Mr. Jeffries, who fought hard to defeat Ms. Avila Chevalier, have privately raised concerns about her victory in particular. They fear that Republicans will weaponize a trove of her inflammatory old social media posts, including her saying that “all deportations are wrong” and using crude language about Kamala Harris, against more moderate Democrats running in swing districts that will decide the fate of the House this fall.

Mr. Jeffries repeatedly sidestepped the issue during an interview on NY1 Tuesday night as the results came in. Others were less reluctant to register concerns.

“Republicans will very quickly seek to elevate, as they always do, the most radical voices in the Democratic Party,” said Howard Wolfson, a former head of the House Democrats’ campaign arm and a top adviser to Michael R. Bloomberg. “And after tonight, they will have more radical Democrats to choose from.”

Mr. Mamdani and his allies saw it very differently.

Gustavo Gordillo, a D.S.A. co-chair in New York, said that his organization was already casting its attention to next year’s budget fight in Albany and beyond.

“We’re going to start thinking about 2028 and what comes next,” he said.
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wow, corrupted terrorist president uses connections to help his billionaire buddies that's literally the model for Kingpin and The Penguin.
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>>1521255
Good. I like Mamdani. He pisses off the right people and tricks commies into supporting him.
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>>1521255
Good. I like Mamdani. He pisses off the right wing and tricks them into thinking he's a commie
>[Mamdani] is a very rational man
-Donald Trump
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>>1521321
>>1521333
>>1521334
Another Mamdani meltdown by /pol/, aka Russian aka epstein bots.
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>>1521338
I said I like him. I wasn't joking. I think tRump's assessment is correct as well.
But hey, hopefully you're replying from the free bus. Oh wait, free bus rides on hold indefinitely.
I fukkin' love socialism! lol. lele even.
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>>1521346
>lefitist
So a fictional boogeyman created by the fascist since liberals weren't enough?
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I like Mamdani though, the only thing I like is he makes other assholes seethe, but I'm happy that rightists suffer in every way. Oh, whites are happy voting for him, just as whites are happy in making white rightards seethe by electing the white MP Andy Burnham last week. I'll be even happier when as PM he'll deny white rightards of their rights in a very friendly way.
Another rightard meltdown for /pol/tards.
It's all falling apart for the right who are eternally wrong. And seething rightards having melties should take their meds.
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>>1521349
Sure you are buddy, sure you are.
That's sarcastic before you misread that.
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1521347
Mamdani & Burnham will make buses free. And the latter will have subsidized train fares on a soon to be nationalized British Rail: a policy - via denying the private companies of their right to continue to own such by denying them of their right to renew their private rail company franchises - that helped Labour become the government of UK in an election two years ago.
Gotta love anything & everything that makes rightards seethe, lel
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>>1521355
your mother just wants you to get a real job
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>>1521355
Why do you hate Mamdami so much? Your boy Trump loves him and couldnt stop fawning over him. He even called him very handsome.
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You know what really makes New Yorkers and Californians seethe? Wyoming and Alaska have as many US Senators as NY and CA. That will never not make liberal faggots seethe.
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>>1521360
IDK about that anon, but personally I like him. I'm something of a socialist myself after all.
That said, I'm laughing my fucking balls off that socialists are praising this guy and he hasn't delivered on a single socialist promise. All he's done is make every other Democrat mayor look like trash by doing basic shit that should've already been done.
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>esl shill doesn't understand the Connecticut Comprise
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>>1521255
Chevalier is a vatnik and an actual racist.
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>>1521362
>All he's done is make every other Democrat mayor look like trash by doing basic shit that should've already been done.
Yea it sucks that they cant all be perfect like Mamdami, its just that they've all been better than any republican out there. Now things are starting to change, especially with how terrible Trump has been for everybody he's more or less forced a change. The rest of the democrats can either adapt for the better, or get voted out.
Aslo.
>I'm something of a socialist myself after all.
Sure you are buddy, sure you are.
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>>1521375
>Now things are starting to change
From the string of Democrat mayors?
>better than Republicans
Uh, you do know that most places run by Republicans don't have to unfuck themselves due to decades of mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse, right?
I'm going to need some stats to backup this blue team bolstering boisterous blurb of bullshit, bitchboy.
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>>1521377
>From the string of Democrat mayors?
2 Dem mayors one of which was a "former" Republican and corrupt cop literally blackmailed into working with Republicans using threat of criminal prosecution do not a string of Dem mayors make.
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>>1521377
Not a self-aware bone in your body, huh?
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>>1521349
Redundant.
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>>1521255
That's not a dick anymore at such length.
>fucking squid
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>>1521255
16 inches girth.
>practically a woman
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1521362
1521355
>personally I like him. I'm something of a socialist myself
>leftists should all suffer
>I'm a socialist
>I hate socialists
The duality of the hypocrite.
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>>1521389
How so?
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>>1521398
The joke is all liberals are retarded. I can see how this joke went over your head.
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>esl shill doesn't understand what a joke is
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>>1521405
I think the joke went above your fucking chromosome count, maga faggot.
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>>1521394
That's two different people you fucking retard.
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The fucking rightard lolcow in /news/ is the joke.
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>>1521440
There are more than 2 people with right wing perspectives on /news/. Half the country voters voted for Trump. There were no russian bots in the poll booth
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>>1521542
>He actually believes this
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>Half the country voters voted for Trump.
Trump votes: 77,302,580
2024 US population: 340,110,988
Retarded ESL Shills: "22.7% is half"
+
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>>1521547
Most voters voted for Trump, retard.
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>>1521547
There were 156,302,318 Voters in the 2024 presidential election. Trump won 77,284,118 votes. Kamala Harris won 74,999,166 votes.
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>>1521553
And anyone who didn't cast a vote resigned to the winner willingly.
So when you think about it, less than 22% of people opposed a trump presidency.
Meaning 78% of the country wanted Trump.
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>>1521551
>most voters

So not half the country then, half the voters, retard.

>>1521555
No you mental midget, some people wanted to vote but found out there was an issue with their registration; some wanted to vote but didn't have access; some wanted to vote, but there were fucking bomb threats called in at their polling places. Plenty of people didn't cast a vote, but didn't willingly resign to the winner.

You're objectively lying and crafting a bad faith argument so you can claim a win here because you're an insecure manchild.

The vast majority of non-voters probably just didn't give a fuck, true, but "I don't care about X" is not the same as "I want X."
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>Most voters voted for Trump
>Most
Nice fanfic.
>in that case, most voters voted for Restore UK's candidate in a by-election last week
>Restore UK: Rebecca Shepherd - 6.8%
>Labour: Andy Burnham - 54.8%
>Most voters voted for the Trump Party candidate in mayoral elections in New York last year
>Republican: Curtis Sliwa - 7.01%
>Democrat: Zohran Mamdani - 50.78%
>Most people voted Republican in Miami last year
>Republican: Emilio Gonzalez - 40.54%
>Democrat: Eileen Higgins - 59.46%
>the latter is mayor of that which includes Mar-a-Lago
>Most voters
>Most
All the other voters destroy wrong opinions.
>Trump referred to Mamdani as 'A very rational man'
>question the words of Dear Leader at your peril: for you will be a traitor for committing thoughtcrime. the orange god's words can never be doubted. If he says a Democrat is very rational, it is so, and Trumptards don't have the right to think otherwise
>or Trump is always wrong: and Trump supporters receive their 'Fell For It Again' awards for so much as thinking of supporting a senile subhuman retard
Choose wisely.
inb4 'Take your meds, dearie'. No, I've never needed them, but all rightard shills do
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>>1521560
Can you confirm the results of the most recent presidential election in America?
Which party won the presidency and a majority in the house and senate? The Democrat or Republican party?
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>Can you confirm the results of the most recent presidential election in America?
Before I answer that, can you confirm that most of the white electorate in UK who voted for a white man to become PM two years ago with a massive 400+ seat majority, then last week white voters in a certain area of UK voted for a white man to be an MP, who will soon become PM of UK are sane people whose choice of candidates are superior and can never be questioned?
And can you confirm that compulsory voting would be a good thing, with no questioning that idea allowed? If it's compulsory in Australia, Brazil & Singapore, then, speaking as someone who has always voted thus compulsory voting would never be a problem for me, I'm sure you'd agree that it can only be a good thing.
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>>1521562
I asked you first bitch you have to answer first
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>>1521561
Are you saying the results of presidential elections in America can be decided by the popular vote?
Thats not how it works, shill
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>>1521556
>So not half the country then, half the voters, retard.
Not even half the voters, there was about a 50% voter turnout
So about half of half, closer to 25% of the voters
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>bitch
That's also not how it works for the shill, eh >>1521564?
I only answer the uncivilized second. But if the shill needs an answer, here's the only one it has the right to receive:
As proven since several months ago, most voters will ensure the current president will lose all power, therefore will become an impotent irrelevance, thus the answer to that question is the Democrat Party just after the midterms.
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>>1521566
That is a lot of words to avoid saying Donald Trump got more votes in 2024 then any president did in history and got a majority in the house senate and supreme court
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>>1521568
crazy how he will also objectively be the worst president in american history. doesn't really add up, does it
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>>1521569
What objective metrics are you using? When you say he is objectively the worst president how do you back that up?
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>>1521565
I used voters to mean "people who voted in 2026."

You are using voters to men "people who were able to vote in 2026" I would call those "eligible voters," not voters, because they didn't vote.

It doesn't really matter, as long as we agree on the definition of our terms, but I'm a bit annoyed because it feels like you were talking past me there. Also, this math is getting too complicated for these fucking retards to follow, let's keep it simple for them.

>>1521568
Joe Biden got the most popular votes in history with 81 million in 2020, vs. the PedoTUS' 77million.
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>>1521568
>and supreme court
NTA, but that you list this alongside the branches people actually vote for speaks volumes.
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>>1521572
What are the 3 branches of government?
Oh they're all Republican
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A lot of words to avoid admitting that Trump will become inferior to the Democrats after they win in the midterms, 1521568.
>more votes in 2024 then any president
>then
And just one word to prove how inferior you are, rather than receive a proper education.
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>>1521573
Uh huh. And?
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>What are the 3 branches of government?
>November 2026
Two of them won't be Republican.
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My love affair with Mamdani is over.
He's pledged to violate federal law willingly.
What a shitlord.
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>>1521579
Well, anit-American terrorists hope that's true.
I'm hoping the other way. I don't want the pain.
Please don't do it. I'm still recovering from Biden's war on US citizens.
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>>1521583
Projection.
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Unwell non-American terrorists such as 1521583 cope, that's true.
I know 1521583 will feel the pain, that's the only way.
Do it, previous Biden-voting citizens, 1521583 will never recover from it.
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Mamdani love starts
Right's winter of discontent
One's shit at Haiku
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>>1521589
Nah we're recovering from Bidenomics. Slower than expected thanks to the stupid Iran war.
However, midterms are almost 6 months away and liggerals have been doing victory laps thanks to special elections (which are almost as a rule dominated by Democrats no matter what the year) and approval ratings that are skewed Democrat and likely off by 10-20 points at the very least.
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>>1521593
>we
LMAO
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>we're
Nah, the esl shill 1521593 will never recover from the midterms
>midterms are almost 6 months away
>almost 6 months away
>almost
the liggy miggy piggy esl shill will watch others run victory laps round the inferior shill being too retarded to count
>the only "almost" is the end of June: just four days left of this month
>it's five months to November
1521593 will be skewe(re)d by the rule of Democrats just five months from now.
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>>1521600
>We
Yeah, I forgot to mention, homosexual Democrat terrorists will never recover and no matter how good things get look for a reason to complain.
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>We
It's what the homosexual lolcow terrorist 1521603 likes to complain about when called out on this. It's the reason why Democrats will always have good things after liggy miggy homosexual piggies such as 1521603 never recover from the midterms.
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>We
>Wuz
>Kings
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>>1521593
Nice try Ivan



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