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Democrats fret about national fallout after Mamdani stuns in New York City (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to c/news@hilariouschaos.com

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Zohran Mamdani declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday night after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race in a stunning upset, as the young, progressive upstart built a substantial lead over the more experienced but scandal-scarred former governor.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-trump-biden-1561ca0aa1821f88b97603f00221b64f

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's almost as if that's what the people want, but the gripe with the DNC is that they keep trying to push for neoliberals. That's why there is "division" in the party. They're trying to keep the dominance of "moderates" even though that's not what the people seem to want.

And in the face of all that, Democrats as a whole are constantly referred to as "Marxist leftists" by conservative media... It's laughable.

[–] realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 1 points 1 month ago

It wouldn't surprise me at all that this is what New Yorkers want, but progressivism still makes up for the minority of the electorate. Leftism isn't that popular.

I suspect here that Mamdani won mostly because he's up against two former mayors who refused to do anything about the problems they're now promising to fix, and people are ready for a change, not that they're socialists. I know it's New York, but I'd like to give them a bit of charitability.