Zohran Mamdani is now Mayor-elect Mamdani. Now comes the hard part.

The youngest New York City mayor in more than a century will take office with massive expectations to deliver on his lofty campaign promises while managing the nation’s largest city with a famously impatient citizenry, all while some leaders of his own party refuse to get on board and Republican President Donald Trump threatens to punish the entire metropolis that elected him.

Mamdani, 34, secured a nine-point victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, cementing his meteoric rise from relatively unknown democratic socialist to the face of the Democratic Party’s new guard.

His supporters think other Democrats could learn a thing or two from his campaign.

"If we take on the affordability crisis with the urgency it demands a

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