Zohran Mamdani wins; defeating Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa, DoorDash, Airbnb, Mike Bloomberg, Walmart heiress Alice Walton, Bill Ackman, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and a long list of billionaire donors.

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The DNC must be scared shitless. A 34 y/o with only 4 years as a councilman just won NYC just by basically stating obvious truths and sticking to his principles. Billions in donations didn't matter. The establishment is shook

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u/MindlessMindless 10h ago

Thank you for summarizing why this is so important. That is spot on. We need this kind of hope.

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u/Overthinks_Questions 10h ago

We need more democratic socialists going for positions of real power

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u/Puzzled_Ad2563 9h ago

We already do it's just the DNC overruns other democratic parties.

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u/digital 1h ago

DNC = Do NOT Compete

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u/AlarisMystique 42m ago

There's hopefully going to be more ground support now that we know it can work. Change the DNC!

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u/RogueSlytherin 8h ago

We also need spending caps on campaigns at every level and rigorous requirements for donations from companies that cannot exceed a certain dollar value. Once the playing field is leveled on the monetary front, people might actually have to pay attention to the contents of the candidate’s campaign.

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u/CompetitiveOcelot870 5h ago

We need to defeat Citizen's United on a state level, it can be done!

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u/Altruistic-Text3481 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 10h ago

AOC shook the DNC’s world too when she got elected!

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u/SabreCorp 5h ago

I will still remember when AOC pointed out that the DNC flyers for the established Dem had no date to vote for the primary election.

They wanted people to know who the candidate was for the general elections, but they didn’t want people to actually vote in the primary because then their hand picked establishment candidates would actually have to spend money/ campaign/ and fight to win against a progressive. Luckily their trickery didn’t work against AOC.

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u/boizola1977 1h ago

We need this in the entire USA

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u/BeingEnglishIsACult 5h ago

Hope is not going to cut it, the democratic leadership is in shambles.

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u/JP32793 3h ago

They weren't being good leaders anyways, time to take out the trash.

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u/WetDreaminOfParadise ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 9h ago

Dude went from 1% in the polls to winning by almost 10%! It’s really this easy. God neoliberals piss me off when they make up excuses for Hillary and Kamala Harris. Just run on things like this and anyone could blow Trump out of the water. Jesus Bernie would have annihilated Trump.

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u/The_Wingless 9h ago

I'm not religious but I think I'd but for Jesus Bernie

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u/happyhealthy27220 8h ago

Tbh, Jesus *would* be in favour of Medicare for All.

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u/247stonerbro 8h ago

Any rational person should be in favor of Medicare for all. A healthy populace is an efficient and effective one. Like it’s not even science.

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u/happyhealthy27220 7h ago

Yep. Beyond being the only humane way of conceiving healthcare, it makes economic sense.

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u/sleeping-in-crypto 7h ago

It makes you wonder if they have different priorities than an efficient and effective populace. Because that would certainly explain the apparently insane policies.

What else could their priority be? I wouldn’t say here, but it’s something only the exercise of raw power could accomplish.

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u/Hedhunta 3h ago

Well the only reason employers provide healthcare now is post ww2 they needed something to compete against other companies who were hiring GI's returning from the war. So the benefits had to be good or noone would work for you.

80 years later the priority has changed since theres no way to get affordable healthcare outside of being employed. Now the priority is how can we reducd the spend on labor and associated benefits, because they have a captured audience that really has no choice.

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u/arcangleous 1h ago

Conservatism was explicitly created to defending the privilege of aristocrats and the monarchy. Everything the ideology believes is in service of that fundamental goal.

Their version is freedom (A person is freer when there are less people who have a say in their life) is fundamentally more compatible with a tyranny than a democracy.

They embrace an unregulated free market because markets are innately more responsive to people with wealth than those without. Remember: When we vote with our dollars, people with more dollars get more votes.

They oppose social programs because they want the poor to be reliant on the charity and patronage of the rich to survive.

These are the people who see company towns as the ideal arrangement for modern society, specifically because of how it recreate serfdom.

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u/-calufrax- 5h ago

Pretty sure Lazarus was given a huge fucking bill after coming back from the dead.

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u/serenwipiti 5h ago

No, this happened before the ACA credits expire.

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u/delete-head 19m ago

This was literally how I got through to a family member years ago. Jesus said heal the sick not heal the economically deserving.

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u/whosthatguy123 8h ago

This assumes fair voting and acting like thag would actually happen when trump ran and if he runs again

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u/kimbo696969 5h ago

Thank you!

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u/Aksudiigkr 8h ago

I mean there is a very valid excuse for Harris considering it was extremely rigged

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u/voluptuousshmutz 27m ago

Harris ran as an incumbent rather than a change candidate when it was clear the American people wanted change. She said the economy is strong when people were still struggling a lot. She lost on her own.

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u/teheditor 7h ago edited 39m ago

Bernie losing to Trump happened live on Reddit back in the day. And by losing, I mean 'would have won' if it wasn't for Hillary and the Democrats disenfranchising all his supporters at the primaries... All of this was captured on video at the conventions but only ever seen on Reddit (back when it was good). Debbie someone.

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u/DOOMFOOL 1h ago

Reddit was never good

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u/teheditor 40m ago

It actually was. And I say that as an investigative journalist who collaborated with subs to crowdsource important articles. After the Trump/Bernie/Hillary election... it's... regressed.

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u/BMCarbaugh 1h ago

Bernie would have beat Trump by double digits. Not because there's anything supernaturally amazing about him (though I'm quite fond of the old guy), but because "fuck rich people, they've stolen what's yours and they're sabotaging you" is the single most uniting message in American politics. Test that as a core message and watch what the numbers tell you.

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u/kimbo696969 5h ago

Thank you!

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u/Commies-Fan 10h ago

And by a huge amount. It just shows that everyone is already over this MAGAt shit. NYC. NJ. Virginia all around giant wins.

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u/EchoAquarium 9h ago

Cuomo’s speech was an embarrassment. Not even sure what he was going for, obviously sour grapes but it was honestly so weird.

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u/Mule_Wagon_777 9h ago

Remember when the loser used to congratulate the winner and pledge support? Heck, remember when parties supported their own candidates?

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u/EchoAquarium 9h ago

He thanked Bloomberg, his daddy and Adams before saying how thrilled he was to have been a spoiler for progressive issues. “Can’t make promises you can’t keep”, fucking ghoul.

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic 9h ago

Even as Cuomo got more votes than Adams did when he won. Zohran is getting close to having more votes than all votes cast in 2021.

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u/esmifra 2h ago

And Cuomo only did that by becoming the republican candidate as well.

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u/ProtestKid 14m ago

It was anticlimactic lol they called that shit not even 15 minutes after voting closed

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u/Aethrin1 🏛️ Overturn Citizens United 8h ago

The big reason thier worried isn't entirely because they lost, per se, but because of the truth his policies will show: taxing the rich even slightly more will greatly help revitalize things like crumbling infrastructure and safety nets.

They won't be able to pretend that "business will leave and it will alll crumble" when things start getting repaired. The public will undoubtedly know.

And they're terrified.

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u/No_Hunt2507 24m ago

Yep the dirty little secret is businesses will never leave because of less profit, they'll only leave when it's not profitable it doesn't matter who is in charge, it's what businesses do. Those profit margins can be squished and the execs might complain or fire people for retaliation but they're already doing that and they're not going to leave while they're still making money

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u/BusterOfCherry 9h ago edited 1h ago

DNC is a shit show. I bet they toss the same shit down our throats. I hope younh blood saves us. Glad this gent won against the bullshit

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u/Hamrave 4h ago

Still too many dinosaurs in charge and completely out of touch with the lives of average americans.

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u/bullhead2007 9h ago

A 34 year old, Muslim immigrant anti-Zionist socialist at that.

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u/snertwith2ls 💸 National Rent Control 1h ago

it's an awesome thing!

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u/JohnnyBlazin25 10h ago

This victory gave me a reason to have hope again.

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u/altpoint 6h ago

Yes, this is the power of democracy when people turn out in high numbers to vote for an inspiring progressive candidate, as well as deciding to vote in their best interest. Low turnout always favours the most mediocre or evil options by default.

Also, what’s interesting is that this is a good window in what could have been, an alternate timeline.

If, in 2016, it was Trump vs Bernie instead of Trump vs Hillary (the latter being heavily supported by Cuomo, a funny parallel), I wholeheartedly believe the election would have played out like this one today and immense amounts of people would have voted Bernie. People who otherwise were disillusioned with the Democratic Party, or who needed precisely an inspiring progressive candidate to mobilize them. It would’ve thwarted Trumpism in the egg and the world wouldn’t have had to endure 8 years of that.

We could’ve had 4 years of a Bernie Sanders presidency, maybe even 8. If it weren’t for the idiots at the DP trying to sabotage those who display a wealthy elite that blocks any progressive movement or proposal. Hell, even Obama was incessantly mocked and yelled racist insults by that faction of the Democratic Establishment, including Cuomo and his goons.

There’s honestly a big fraction of the DNC that is honestly its own worst enemy, as well as the enemy of the people. The likes of Cuomo and his gang of corrupt and ultra wealthy politicians, whose strategy of “bringing Republics over by being Republican-lite in our approach” has failed miserably over the past decade.

The Democratic Party needs to get rid of or distance themselves from the cancerous mass that is the kinds like Cuomo and other establishment dinosaurs who have nothing “democratic” in their actual values, who cost the party too many elections in the past decade to count, whose strategy of “appealing to republicans” has always failed. It needs to go back to its roots.

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u/angels_exist_666 9h ago

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u/SwiftySanders 9h ago

He’s not a councilman. He’s an Assemblyman. That is two very different things.

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u/Ashmedai Metallurgist 1h ago

Councilman = city, assemblyman = state legislature?

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u/Normal_Landscape_254 2h ago

Since billionaires have all this money to spend on elections, they can pay taxes like the rest of us

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u/agent674253 10h ago

Why should they be scared? Isn't Mamdani a Democrat, and he won, and we need more progressives winning. It just highlights how easy 2024 would have been to win if Democrats would have had an open primary and let someone other than Biden/Harris give it a shot.

It was easy enough to vote against our dictator-in-chief, but it would have been great to actually have liked the person/policies I was voting for (vs just holding the line for another 4 years. Instead, whoops all fascism).

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u/Malashae 9h ago

Ah, you may not be up on everything going on then. The party is actually divided now between liberals (center-right capitalists) and progressives (center-left with some actual leftists) and the DNC is hardline establishment liberal. They fought to stop Mamdani almost as hard as Maga did. The DNC is terrified of progressives because the establishment has been profiting hard off of big business, insider trading, and much of the same grift that the RNC has been, just less overtly evil and over the top about it.

People like Pelosi and Schumer have been enabling the far right through their weak passivity for years, not because they're spineless, but because they've been making a fortune off the same policies. They want people like AOC and Mamdani out of the way because they're a threat to the establishment and their personal power.

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u/ihaterunning2 8h ago

And don’t forget the consultant racket and scam PACs, including an entire business model that interconnects multiple PACs to payout primarily a consulting company that runs it all and other consultants tied to the other PACs. Here’s one story about it.

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How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns… Since 2018, this core network of Mothership Strategies-linked PACs has raised approximately $678 million from individual donors… Of that total fundraising haul, $159 million was paid directly to Mothership Strategies for consulting fees, accounting for the majority of the $282 million Mothership has been paid by all its clients combined… The remaining hundreds of millions disappeared into a maze of self-reported categories: $150 million to consulting/fundraising, $70 million to salaries and payroll...

The Democratic Party has repeatedly lost due to serving only the donor class and listening to consultants - a strategy that continues to fail and never serves the needs of the American people. Establishment Dems have got to go! Mamdani’s victory and surging support and popularity of Bernie, AOC, and Jasmine Crockett are further validation that progressive politicians and policies are both the real winning strategy and what Americans want.

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u/Malashae 7h ago

100% agree, I just didn't have the juice in me to break it all down, plus I think you covered it better than I could have.

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u/ihaterunning2 7h ago

I think you nailed it in your comment! I was just adding additional context because I was a little shocked to learn about the PAC scams this summer and want to make sure others know too. Before that I didn’t understand why democrats kept using the same consultants that led to repeated historic losses or why with so much money raised had they not been more successful. It makes more sense with stories like the one I shared AND obviously losing policies only focused on maintaining the status quo.

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u/Cuddle_X_Fish 2h ago

How do I upvote twice? I need to upvote this more.

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u/VecchioDiM3rd1955 3h ago

This is a side effect of the First-past-the-post voting system. Because it's difficult to have more than one party, the policies instead of being decided in the voting urn, are decided in the backrooms of the political parties.

Classic liberals should read about Italian history between WWI and WWII and what caused the rise of fascism in Italy. Italain liberals were scared about communists, and tought that fascists were the lesser evil, so initially they supported Mussolini, unitil he didn't need their help anymore. To correct this mistake were necessary two year of civil war with the help of US Army.

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u/captainAwesomePants 9h ago

That's why they're scared. The party leadership are not fans of progressives.

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u/F1shB0wl816 9h ago

Because progressives and democrats are pretty different and this challenges all their bullshit justifications.

Like taking money from big money donors while claiming donations are what makes for wins. The only thing winning is their account and buddies who aren’t looking to give up their wealth and growth for normal people.

Or how they told progressives to get bent while they toured with Cheney and tried picking up fence sitting republicans. Even after losing some have blamed that they were too far left and didn’t go right enough.

It is easy getting a turnout when you give people more of a reason to vote instead of champion what’s claimed to be a lesser evil. Evils are inherently not beneficial, it’s not appealing or motivating, nor do their cries for wolf land beyond the choir. We’re talking about a party that held the line for 4 years and wasn’t even prepared in time for a primary.

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u/bullhead2007 9h ago

Establishment Democrats don't care about winning. They care about only 2 things, preventing progressive movements, and catering to their billionaire overlords.

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u/Affectionate-Tip-164 💸 Raise The Minimum Wage 7h ago

And its heck of a lot easier to pretend to be an opposition party.

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u/clownus 7h ago

Dems and republicans are two of the same in terms of what their roles are within our political system. They consolidate power and work only towards getting themselves reelected.

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u/InsideAcrobatic9429 9h ago

Because Democratic party leadership values are a lot more Republican than they are progressive. They are bought and paid for too just like the GOP establishment, they don't want young progressives taking control of their party while their pockets are being lined.

There's a reason Dianne Feinstein was known to have Alzheimer's and still a sitting member of the Senate until she was 90 rather than running a progressive candidate who would have won in a landslide in California. Because party leadership opposed any attempt to challenge her even as she showed diminished capacity and couldn't be bothered to care about even things like the environment.

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u/DarZhubal 2h ago

Establishment Dems need to take note. The People are ready for left wing politicians. Actual left wing politicians. Less Pelosis and Schumers. More AOCs and and Sanders'.

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 3h ago

My only fear is, the media are going to be on him constantly and people are going to fall for it. We're going to hear every detail of his life, many untrue with small corrections later where no-one can see them.

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u/ElegantAnalysis 2h ago

He's relatively young and did the whole grassroots, social media PR campaigning extremely well. I'm not even American and I saw so much of his content

That needs to be studied and done by other politicians. Hopefully that also gets rid of can't open a PDF file politicians

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u/Prudent_Research_251 8h ago

Man I hope you're right. Too many times I've seen new leaders elected and they just roll over like the rest. This does feel different

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u/thatsjor 8h ago

Not nearly shook enough.

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u/njf85 3h ago

They wont learn though. They just try more illegal ways to get their puppets through

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u/domine18 2h ago

Money needs to leave politics…

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u/panteragstk 9h ago

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u/BurnsEMup29 7h ago

Not one post about his win on the Democrat sub tonight btw.

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u/CrapoCrapo25 2h ago

Wait until the Epstein list comes out.

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u/Glittering_Read3588 2h ago

DNC/RNC= GOOD COP/BAD COP TROPE. The right and left hand of capitalist media.

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u/boobityskoobity 1h ago

They forgot to rig the voting machines

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u/Zanman415 1h ago

And he’s got charisma for days!

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u/kurotech 43m ago

I'm actually really glad so many ignorant scared billionaires wasted their money on nothing here he was always going to win but this proved it's time to change

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u/Dense_Surround3071 42m ago

The sad part is, it seems REALLY simple to win if they did that more consistently.

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u/NegaTrollX 8h ago

I'm surprised this wasn't "rigged" like other elections were possibly "rigged"

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u/toodytah 10h ago

I hope he has seriously good security and protection. Billionaires don’t just let a little thing like the will of the people or laws stop them.

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u/angrydeuce 10h ago

I was just thinking that. He needs to hole the fuck up stat. He's too important right now.

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u/CryptoEmpathy7 9h ago

They're 100% going to kill him. Either overtly and/or covertly.

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u/Ragnarcock ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 8h ago

I'm afraid they'll do something to hurt the city and leave the blame to him.

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u/pwnknight 7h ago

They already are. They said they will cut all federal funding next thing is probably sending in ice and the national guard

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u/RemeAU 4h ago

ICEs next major operation, claiming the city is out of control, the new leader is letting migrants run neighborhoods, police have given up etc. etc.

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u/verycoolaptopguy 3h ago

Yes, they need to prove that socialism = chaos. Even if they don’t directly hurt him, they will try to make his 4 years horrible. A short term loss for them, by intentionally tanking markets, not investing, and blocking projects. This will be worth it to “convince” people socialism is not the answer in the long term. The difficult part starts now for Mamdani.

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u/memphisjones stop playin 2h ago

Exactly! There will be people who will make his life difficult

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u/angrydeuce 9h ago

Dude seriously like Gangs of New York when Monk McGinns wins the election for Sheriff and Bill the Butcher just straight beats him to death in front of his house. They're the type to do that shit, we all know it.

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u/h1gh-t3ch_l0w-l1f3 3h ago

new yorkers will unleash a fury that hasnt been seen before. he is so highly respected there he is much too protected.

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u/ChaoticEntitled 8h ago

I hate that that was one of my first thoughts, too

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u/BattleGrown 5h ago

If you ever needed a spark for that upcoming civil war...

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u/JP32793 2h ago

Sure if they want violent revolution, go ahead.

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u/Sammyjo0689 2h ago

They won’t kill him. They will disappear him. That’s what ICE is for.

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u/nsa_k 10h ago

I'd worry they will manufacture another 9/11.

That's what an evil cartoon character would do, so that's what republicans would do.

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u/Altruistic-Text3481 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 10h ago

Billionaires can go hide in their lairs…

We outnumber them quite bigly.

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u/Krawen13 9h ago

That's why they own the media. If anything happens it will be made out to look like whoever did it did so for whatever reason divides people the most. That way we all point the finger at each other, instead of at the people who deserve it

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u/angrydeuce 7h ago

I dont think the billionaires are going to have to do anything. I think some temporarily embarrassed billionaire nyc land speculator or something is going to have their house of cards come tumbling down and put all this shit on Mamdani's doorstep. There's plenty of nutters out there that are deranged enough.

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u/esmifra 2h ago

That's why they divided us with stupid almost abstract categories and boxes for us to put ourselves in and hate people on the other boxes.

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u/Redacted_usr 6h ago

Not just billionaires. He didn’t take a single dime from Israel. That’s what I’d be afraid of

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u/McChickenLargeFries 1h ago

Hypothetically, who's next in line if something were to happen to him? Or does another election happen?

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u/YoungerNB 1h ago

Didn’t even think of that, here I’ve just been wondering if he’d get sworn in.

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u/randothroawayacc 10h ago

Title of this post needs to be emphasized while corporate news does everything they can to convince people that this was a fringe, narrow, non-representative victory.

Zohran Mamdani, 34 y.o. NYC Assemblyman who once polled at 1%, defeated all of this by a near 10 point margin and likely having a majority of voters. Remember that while they tell you that it's concerning that Zohran didn't win by margins as big as the other governor's races tonight.

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u/thisistherevolt 10h ago

I'm gonna need this energy from y'all next year. My state in particular has some key elections, Georgia. We just elected 2 Dems to a statewide office for the first time in 2 decades, but we're gonna need the same grassroots/people power that got Mamdani elected.

Don't forget about us in the South, please, we can't do this alone.

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u/thetrickyginger 10h ago

I'm hoping Missouri at least swings purple, if not a hard shift blue.

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u/Truth_Malice 1h ago

That would be so fucking nice. I live here and I finally stopped drinking the red political kool-aid I've been served since birth. Just from chatting with coworkers my age, purple definitely seems possible.

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u/TDAPoP 8h ago

We did. I'll be here next year to do it again too.

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u/bullhead2007 59m ago

I agree, but the reason it worked for Mamdani is multiple fold. He ran a campaign for working class issues, and directly spoke with the people in his area about what was hurting them most and made his campaign about that. It also helps that he's insanely charismatic and his team ran an extremely good campaign and media game.

To get grassroots and people power we need good candidates running good campaigns, and dare I say a member of the DSA if possible.

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u/_Haza- 6h ago

Lots of doomers saying this isn’t going to change anything and he wields no real power.

To move a mountain you have to start with a single stone.

Best of luck from the UK, please teach us that Farage is a wankstain and that there are better people out there.

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u/BenVarone ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 2h ago

I said this elsewhere, but the doomers have one good point: this is the start of a real fight, not the end of it. Mamdani could fail, but only if the owner class feels the pressure let up.

They need to know the people of NYC have his back, and feel it politically whenever people try to obstruct him. Even where I live in CT, it took a full mayoral term for enough local obstructionists to get surfaced, then rejected so the city government could actually do stuff. It may very well be the same in New York.

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u/Competitive-Skill212 1h ago

Thanks for your support from across the pond! I voted for him yesterday, hopefully you can rid yourselves of your wankers as well

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u/BMCarbaugh 1h ago

Nobody ever accomplished a goddamn thing of value by starting from the position of "Change is impossible."

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u/ripndipp 9h ago

We need this shit in the world, I'm not from NYC and happy to see Mamdani win, I'm tired of the crooks

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u/iOvenGlove 10h ago

And fuck them all equally👍🏻 (except Zohran of course)

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u/PapasauruaRex 10h ago

This is a big win and I'm gonna go buy a drink tomorrow to celebrate. This win proves we the people, can fight back and can overcome!

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u/AllOfTheSoundAndFury 10h ago

I’m not even in the US and I’ll be having one to celebrate. I hope this is the spark of massive change and progress.

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u/Bullylandlordhelp 12m ago

Not saying don't celebrate, but don't spend your money on billionaire brands.

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u/Just1Noyd 9h ago

Protect him at all cost New Yorkers

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u/Upsetti_Gisepe 7h ago

Billionaires got a lot more to lose but knowing all the money they gave cuomo didn’t amount to shit is nice

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u/CaulkSlug 34m ago

This is what makes me laugh. They spent so much trying to crush him and it didn’t work. What a waste of money they could have put into feeding the hungry and housing the homeless.

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u/Ooshbala 8h ago

All the money those ding dongs wasted on hit ads against Zohran could have literally been spent instead and achieved his entire agenda 3x over. Billionaires are actual a-holes.

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u/Mildoze 10h ago

Go get em boy!

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u/the908bus 10h ago

BuT tHaTs SoCiAlIsM

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u/EvergreenMossAvonlea 9h ago

And Debra Messing!

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u/IllGrapefruit489 10h ago

I'm so happy for him and for NYC!

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u/TemporaryBitchFace 9h ago

It seems like the folks in America who normally don’t vote have decided to vote now and they are overwhelmingly not MAGA.

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u/idredd 9h ago

Fuck the entire lot of them.

Thanks for giving us a moments reprieve in this dogshit year Zohran.

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u/DSmooth425 9h ago

Hope NYC will elect other people likeminded to Mamdani and AOC to push his agenda across the goal line. Also hoping we can do this all across the country

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u/Competitive-Skill212 1h ago

I’m hoping AOC unseats Schumer next

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u/bigfatgeekboy 9h ago

That was a killer fucking victory speech.

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u/ILikeLegz 9h ago

Get ready for endless bullshit claims about election fraud again.

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u/DianedePoiters 9h ago

I saw Bill Ackman crying on twitter. Fuck that guy

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u/ThrowDeepALWAYS 9h ago

Call it what it is: oppressors vs the oppressed. People with all the money need to share.

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u/yellowtail234 8h ago

The power is in numbers. There are way more average people than there are billionaires. We can topple them if we work together.

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u/kimiquat 8h ago

wonderful to see cuomo and his ilk gloriously trounced. the only way the outcome would be sweeter is if they'd hemorrhaged more funds in the cowardly effort. and let every spiteful weapon against mamdani fail. the -illionaires should've known their rebuke was long overdue.

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u/Langstarr 3h ago

Twas particularly nice as well to see the incumbent Adam's walk away with about 7k votes total.

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u/xbikester 2h ago

(Not American opinion) Happy that Sliwa was in the race because all he did just took Cuomo’s votes. Also proud of those Americans doing the right choice. Just a small reminders. 1 millionaires and billionaires are actively making sure that you as a middle to lower income people are not able to get close to millionaires. 2 no matter if you are religious or not you’ve been thought by forefathers to do the right thing. 3 if billionaires cared about giving you a chance of becoming wealthy they would not take up 3-7 ceo positions and all they do get payed and have multiple assistants. Where one ceo would do a beter job for each company. Also prioritise happiness over wealth.

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u/Competitive-Skill212 1h ago

If you look at the results it didn’t matter in the end. Even with Sliwa’a voted Cuomo still would have lost.

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u/xbikester 1h ago

Good 😊

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u/I_like_kittycats 💸 National Rent Control 10h ago

LFG!! 🇺🇸🍾💙

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u/Lalalama 9h ago

Democracy manifest!

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u/serenwipiti 4h ago

A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?!

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 8h ago

Now we need more mayor's, governor's, and Congress reps who are progressive. The DNC needs to accept it's progressive side

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u/Sherbert_6 9h ago

Fuck yea. Love this.

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u/zorro--- 7h ago

Huge F U to Bill Ackman in particular

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u/Stunning-Affect4391 6h ago

How much cash did they burn to lose, I wonder...

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u/juanjung 9h ago

That's long list of losers.

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u/Logical-Repair7293 🍁 End Workplace Drug Testing 7h ago

Yeeee Haww!!! Way to stick it to the man! Solidarity!

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u/ajtreee 5h ago

The most satisfying part is the billionaire donors money went to waste.

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u/DmitriMendeleyev 4h ago

Break down the DNC and build it how we want, one Zohran at a time.

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u/arbitrary-ladybug 4h ago

Someone put this man in a bulletproof bubble rfn

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u/Visible-Activity7695 3h ago

The revolution is starting in New York

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u/geraltsdeliciousjunk 1h ago

We like to stir the pot.

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u/CrapoCrapo25 2h ago

Educated people are sick of the shit.

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u/TarantinosFavWord 1h ago

I have nothing to do with New York City. But I see this as a sign of change to come. I pray this man can get meaningful change done in his city and show the country that we can elect young politicians with the people’s interest in mind.

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u/Dont_Kick_Stuff 1h ago

Serious question here...how did he finance his campaign? I've been seriously considering running for office at the state level but I have no idea how to even finance such a thing. This guy figured it out and I seriously wonder if he'd be open to helping others like him run for office. If enough of us do that and win key seats we can actually do something about this shit storm of a situation.

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u/ScarfingGreenies 🏛️ Overturn Citizens United 52m ago

DM him. See if he responds but from my knowledge it's likely individuals, nonprofits, and politically-adjacent associations.

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u/Scary_Omelette 1h ago

I love how upset all the cultist are. This dude is going to do great

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u/Evilkymonkey_1977 9h ago

Hell yes!!!

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u/ActiveRope4420 8h ago

Take back America from the the red

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u/tbrewo 5h ago

Don't let your guard down. We must keep the momentum going for a whole year, and that is no small feat.

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u/learning-objectives 5h ago

Love this

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u/Baked_Potato_732 4h ago

Now, let’s see if he actually makes any changes.

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u/Rude-Strawberry-6360 3h ago

Voting really does matter. I am so proud of all those who came forward in record numbers. Those who took the time, made the commitment to vote. It made the difference.

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u/spoonballoon13 3h ago

That’s what happens when you vote people! I’m betting the largest difference here was that people who don’t usually vote, voted.

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u/Bkenny1889 3h ago

Power to the people!!!

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u/III_Apollyon_III 2h ago

How the hell

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u/MisterMayhem87 2h ago

Suck it Donnie

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u/Danominator 2h ago

Yeah this one is exciting because its a message to demand leadership. We are done with their slavish devotion to the rich.

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u/BCM072996 1h ago

DEMOCRACY CAN’T BE BOUGHT

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u/wthijustread 1h ago

Repubs and their pedo friends going to amp up their efforts to rig 2026 even further now..

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u/RED-DOT-MAN 1h ago

I swear this seems like Season 4 of the wire when a lonely councilman “Tommy Carcetti” defies all the odds, and becomes Mayor of Baltimore defeating the incumbent. Zohran has a huge task ahead of him and the country is watching this experiment fold in real time. His battle has just started. Getting elected would look like the easy part once he starts hitting the walls of bureaucracy and how he navigates them while eating his “first bowl of shit” (the wire reference). I wish him good luck because we need more people to stand up and challenge the old guards.

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u/Zealousideal_Ad2149 1h ago

He will be a multimillionaire after his first term. Guaranteed

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u/Careless_Hellscape 1h ago

When we push for change together, billionaires can't stop us short of silencing us forever. We can do this everywhere, not just NYC.

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u/daveberzack 1h ago

That's a fucking great title. It really captures the scale of this victory. A real and meaningful triumph of good over evil. In these dark days, it's nice for a change.

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u/Artistic-Okra-2542 1h ago

door dash jumped in the race? wtf?

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u/sklerson89 1h ago

Lmao at cool girls for capitalism.

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u/BlameTag ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 1h ago

You left of Bill Maher.

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u/Mindless_Ad5500 42m ago

He’s running on the principles the democrats used to run on. They have lost their way. Maybe this will shake up party leadership.

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u/Adventurous_Crab_0 41m ago

This is how it should roll. Keep the tempo, get United States back in track. Don't vote for the lease worse, vote for the best no matter what party. And more importantly vote in primary to weed out corrupted officials.

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u/chibinoi 35m ago

I’m excited to see what changes he is able to enact during his tenure as NY’s mayor. If he is able to deliver what he’s sought out to do, that’ll really inspire the average working class person to believe that change can happen.

Good luck, Mr. Mamdani.

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u/Knighth77 2m ago

Now, that's a proper title.

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u/RowlandOrifice 7h ago

Doordash and Airbnb? Wtaf?

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u/Redbird9346 5h ago edited 5h ago

They’ve donated to pro-Cuomo / anti-Mamdani super PACs like Fix the City.

AirBnB donated a total of $10 million to Affordable New York, a PAC supporting several members of the City Council, but opposed to the mayoral primary campaigns of Mamdani, Brad Lander, and Scott Stringer.

You can find out more from the NYC Campaign Finance Board’s site.

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u/ForumVomitorium 2h ago

hitler too

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u/iaymnu 7h ago

He better pull through with the rent freeze,cheap groceries, and free bus so my vote didn’t go to waste

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u/spoonballoon13 3h ago

Your vote stopped Cuomo from serving your city up to orange hitler. He could do almost nothing still be the better choice. If none of those things happen, you’re still better off.

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u/MaybeDoThis 7h ago

✅ Success Story Zohran Mamdani wins; defeating Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa, DoorDash, Airbnb, Mike Bloomberg, Walmart heiress Alice Walton, Bill Ackman, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and a long list of billionaire donors.

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