Zohran Mamdani , the 34-year-old democratic socialist who went from near obscurity to a stunning win in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary over former governor Andrew Cuomo , has done it again: Mamdani was voted in as New York City’s new mayor on Tuesday.

The win was projected by both the Associated Press and NBC less than an hour after polls in the city closed.

By Election Day, all eyes were on the race in America’s most populous city as an electoral proxy for Donald Trump ’s second stint in the White House. There was Mamdani, the upstart, a Ugandan-born political organizer turned state assemblyman representing the Astoria neighborhood in Queens since 2021, the anointed Democratic candidate. Republican Curtis Sliwa consistently polled last in the race, though he fo

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