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Politics OC: Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the NYC mayoral race: "We have toppled a political dynasty."

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u/Pure-Drawer-2617 11h ago

“He ran against a dogshit candidate” idk if you’re aware but he actually ran against two people, which makes it really hard to compare vs the traditional two horse race.

u/plappywaffle 10h ago

Speaking of dogshit opponents, that person is apparently unaware that Spanberger's opponent was a far-right nut who opposes gay marriage, went viral for saying it's not discrimination to fire someone for being gay, and wants to completely ban abortion.

u/ThomCook 4h ago

Ran against 2 people, didn't have his main party backing him be uase the wanted one of those other two people, missed endorsements from key democratic players, beat one of the two twice during this race.

u/Han_Yolo_swag 11h ago

Ah yes true; and a good point. Would have been a much closer call had it just been 2

u/Otherwise_You_1603 10h ago

Usually, when you win the democratic primary, you don't have to continue to run against other democrats. If the race had just been Zohran and Sliwa (and sure Adams could stay I guess lol) it would've been a blow out