Democratic nominee leads ahead of November 4 election after a grassroots campaign.

xIf all goes well, and your columnist is really hoping that it does go well, the world’s most famous city will soon be won and run by a man with a Gujarati father and a Punjabi mother. Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic Party’s nomination in June and on November 4, is poised to win the general election to become New York’s mayor.

What I wanted to focus on was his campaign and how he came out on top. In January this year, he was polling at one per cent but by June had won 43 per cent of the primary (the election that decides who will represent the Democratic Party in the general election) and now polls show him at 50 per cent in an expanded electorate of the entire city. How did this happen? Americans refer

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