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He’ll spend all his time fighting off billionaires and their roadblocks

Candidates control which way those winds go by having ideas or not.

Please tattoo this onto every member of the DNC

Meanwhile pundits on CNN is calling this a 'warning lesson'. Anderson Cooper and crowd fear mongering even through victory.

Snapping my fingersssss

"So ya leavin' or what? You a man a ya word? What kind of apartment ya got? How far is the subway? Whataya paying? You really should keep your word and get the fuck outta here, know what I'm sayin'?"

Did you see that silly article with Gov. Abbot of TX indicating that people who left NYC would have to pay a tariff to enter TX?

Of course not.

This is the first time I can recall when a politician keeps saying things that make me like him more.

quote from Eugene Debs

I had to look that one up. Good reference.

I'd love to see AOC win the nomination in 2028, but we're already seeing swaths of morons trying to get us to 'fall in line' for an establishment candidate.

I genuinely have no idea why people are still so stupid after all that's transpired, but it's really lowered my expectations of them going forward.

I do hope they'll realize that concrete policy proposals are such a huge part of what won here, not just Mamdani's ideology or personality. The interview where he was asked about the bus plan being feasible was amazing, he had examples and numbers to back it up. It wasn't just an "it would be cool" idea.

I'm 100% for Mamdani, but wasn't the sexual assault case dismissed against Cuomo? Some people really do get falsely accused of sexual assault and it ruins their life. We should not try to normalize calling him an assaulter if it's not true.

I read that Mamdani polled at 1% back in February, about 9 months ago. Cuomo was a former governor of the state, so was his father, and his brother had a show on CNN so they had stacked named recognition. Thankfully negative recognition as well, given Andrew's behavior. Still, to go from 1% to over 50% in 9 months is an incredible result for Mamdani.

People who vote for law and order or over things like "crime" that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.

First of all, it was a 3 way race, against far better known candidates. He was running an untested Socialist campaign, against ferocious propaganda from BOTH sides. The voters had to remain courageous, ignore ALL that, and tell the "experts" that they didn't care, something that they historically don't tend to do. By all standard political theory, he should have been crushed by 50 points.

In America, many races are within a few points. It's not at all unusual to have a race decided by only a point, or even less. In any race, an 8 point lead is significant. For an unknown Socialist, coming out of nowhere, against the most incredible bi-partisan smear campaign I've ever seen, to win by 8 points, is an enormous victory.

Both MAGA and established Democrats are terrified today. The Progressive Left just fired the first shots of the New Civil War, and hit every target.

As much of a POS as Cuomo is, he's been elected before and a lot of older people trust him because of that, for reasons I can't fathom. He was simultaneously a terrible candidate who also had a high floor.

Though I 100% agree that it's disgusting how many Americans don't seem to care about the character of their leadership, because it absolutely matters. You don't get to whine about corrupt, uncaring politicians when you consistently reward them with your vote.

However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?

because too many Americans still think "wE aRE NoT thEre YEt!"

The enemies of progress own most of the major US news outlets. I think that is the biggest reason why so many people voted for a dipshit like Cuomo.

A second possibility is name recognition. Now that Zohran gets to run New York for awhile, his name and ideas will spread. That means during the next round of elections, he becomes the defending champ with all the advantages that brings to the table. If he is a good leader, he probably will have a much greater margin of votes than Cuomo ever did.

This is local but the fascist takeover of America is not local, given the rise of the far right together and American bad actors funding and working abroad. So this news of someone on the left with a major win becomes relevant in the worldwide context.

NYC has lots of foreign residents and visitors, maybe the most of any USA city, so isn't a foreign-born mayor there more than merely 'internal news'? It's not like the mayoral election of Nowhere, North Dakota.

All world news happens somewhere local. They should rename this com to "Not US News" if that's how they want to define it and let people who live in the world post news that happens in the world to world news

Maybe because voting in a week day is troublesome? In most countries, elections are held on weekends. I don't understand why "the land of the free" does it differently.

8.8 million population, which probably means a bit less than 7 million potential voters because kids and others can't vote and it's a relatively young city. Only 5 million registered to vote at present.

So still 2 million is worryingly low, but not as bad as if there were 8m potential voters.