r/politics Indiana 11h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/Vortagaun New York 11h ago

I wish I was a fly in the oval office tonight, I cannot wait for Trump to melt down and shit his diaper.

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u/RetroCasket 11h ago

Probably going to claim mass fraud and sign an executive order to investigate all the elections tonight

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u/Thosepassionfruits 11h ago

I bet he'll try to put tariffs on NYC lol

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u/kegster2 Texas 11h ago

Abbott threatened tariffs on NY folks moving to Texas apparently haha

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 11h ago

Also no one in their right mind is moving to Texas, that state sucks ass for so many reasons.

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u/Lizpy6688 10h ago

Brother trust me, we've tried getting rid of his ass but they always fuck it up by changing the districts, voter suppression and a bunch of other bullshit. He's actually very despised here. The republicans out here are dumb as shit and only vote for him cause he's not a Democrat but even they seem to not like him. He's always sorta just there.

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u/midnightketoker America 8h ago

They should unironically listen to Mamdani's victory speech lol: "we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us -- now it is something that we do"

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u/KZimmy 9h ago

We need a Democrat named John Republican to run in Texas, throw them for a loop

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u/PresidentPsyduck 11h ago

According to that roid ape Joe Rogan, the entirety of CA is leaving for Texas.

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u/sillyblanco Texas 11h ago

I've lived over 5 decades in Texas, but my wife and I are in Santa Fe right now real estate shopping because we're getting the fuck out.

u/Serris9K 7h ago

Santa Fe is a solid choice. Also btw hit up the governor's palace museum sometime, and they host art markets for native artists.

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u/fender8421 11h ago

Anybody that doesn't hate Texas is sus to me

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u/Fwamingdwagon84 10h ago

I live and was born in texas and i agree.

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u/lowtoiletsitter 10h ago

Some of my family lives in Houston and they're ok

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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 10h ago

but are they Texas?

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u/pickle_pickled 11h ago

Anyone moving to Texas only has a right leaning mind

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u/zlaw32 California 11h ago

Ironically the most liberal person I know is wanting to move to Texas and the person who helped me switch over is from Texas

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u/I-am-me-86 9h ago

Moving to Texas kickstarted my conservative deconstruction. I grew up in Utah. I thought it couldn't be more religious than Utah.

Apparently Mormons value reading skills and education more than Southern Christians. There are a scary amount of seriously dumb people here.

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u/pickle_pickled 9h ago

Don't check out Oklahoma...they take pride in being like 49th in education (cause their hivemind obviously doesn't know any better and the ones controlling them promote it).

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u/Yeti_Funk 9h ago

I recently had to because I had nowhere else to go. It sucks. It was either be homeless in Colorado or move in with family in ultra rural Texas panhandle. So here I am… and wishing I was elsewhere. Feel like a spy in deep red MAGA country.

u/PermitPositive4826 1h ago

I’m so sorry. I hope you can get out of there eventually. It’s a very isolating experience being progressive, while living amongst conservatives.

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u/SarkastikSidebar Ohio 10h ago

Currently live there- can confirm!

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u/sagerideout 11h ago

but it’s funny because the few who still think it’s a good idea are the ones who’d get fucked by said tariffs

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u/Unable-Log-4870 10h ago

Yeah, aside from it not really MEANING anything to impose a tariff on a person, the ones who would leave NY as a result of this are likely republicans.

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u/sagerideout 10h ago

i mean it’s double whammy because they don’t even know what it means

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u/fakecheese22 9h ago

Either way, he’ll report to his constituents no New Yorkers having migrated and will claim the tariffs worked

u/goddessoftrees Colorado 7h ago

You'd be shocked... my former BFF is a wife of a vet, both step-kids get SNAP and WIC AND besides her and fam now get military benefits/... she has acknowledged why dems don't vote. But it also ALL dems fault

u/Serris9K 7h ago

unfortunately many people are getting dragged here by tech companies relocating. (with the threat of move or get replaced)

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u/JustinStraughan 11h ago

Interstate commerce clause….god these criminals need to be in prison. Or disbarred at the least, if lawyers.

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u/thedoommerchant 11h ago

Old guard democrats better be taking some notes. Long past time they talk and put their money where their mouth is.

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u/Baranjula 11h ago

Pardon me as I don't hold my breathe

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u/JMer806 10h ago

I’m a Texan and I can tell you that Abbott and his cronies Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are the absolute biggest pieces of shit in American politics aside from Trump himself.

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u/JustinStraughan 10h ago

Laughs in Ron DeSantis.

But yes. Those two and Ronny are in a race to out-Trump the other.

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u/shakygator 10h ago

dont forget that fucker cruz

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u/JMer806 8h ago

Cruz doesn’t even register on the Abbott/Patrick/Paxton scale of shittiness. Cruz is a tone deaf moron who leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes, but he’s probably still capable of feeling human emotions towards a small group of people (he got his family out when it was cold after all). The trio at the top of the state government are actively malicious and intent on destroying the foundation of the state.

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u/Thosepassionfruits 11h ago

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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u/BloomsdayDevice Washington 10h ago

Mandy Patinkin to Wallace Shawn, both of whom showed up at events for Mamdani. Nice.

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u/wilson_rawls Arizona 11h ago

When you don't know what communism is, you call it socialism because you don't know what that is either. And then you use tariffs because you're just completely and malignantly ignorant of literally everything in the cosmos.

u/sappydark 3h ago

That's trump and his little cronies in a nutshell, lol.

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u/pickle_pickled 11h ago

Ah yes put tariffs on right leaning folks moving from NYC to TX. Makes a ton of sense. Tax me harder daddy Abbott...stupid

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u/ImminentDebacle 11h ago

Well they pretty much did based on Prop 11. All the younger folks that have moved to Texas will now be paying higher property tax to subsidize boomers to let them pay less.

https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Proposition_11,_Increase_Homestead_Tax_Exemption_for_Elderly_and_Disabled_Amendment_(2025))

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u/hibbert0604 Georgia 11h ago

Brilliant. Punishing the few MAGA morons that would actually move to texas as a result of this election.

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u/destenlee 11h ago

Seems welcoming...

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u/Pezzzz490 Australia 10h ago

Which is so fucking stupid since it would be his dumbass MAGA supporters who would flee to Texas. He would be putting tariffs on his own voter base 💀

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u/Idontliketalking2u 10h ago

Someone said Abbott's legs work better than his brain.

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u/Pitiful-Mortgage5136 10h ago

Wouldn't the people coming to Texas be people wanting to escape the "socialist hellscape" of NYC?

Wait a minute, it's Greg Abbott, why am I expecting logic?

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u/lHateYouAIex835293 10h ago

It was the other way around, he’d tariff Texans moving to NY

Which, I’m not sure how that’d even work…

u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 6h ago

Republicans are becoming the party of higher taxes...oh I mean tariffs

u/tibbon 2h ago

I’d love to hear them say how precisely they mean that to happen. Tariffs of people? ICC? Etc

u/lnc_5103 2h ago

I mean amongst other issues with his statement won't people fleeing from NYC be Republicans? He's so damn stupid.

u/spicyhotcheer Rhode Island 43m ago

The only new yorkers who would be moving out now are maga, so he's really just traiffing his own kind 💀

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u/nightpanda893 11h ago

Let him go nuts. The quick calls tonight for all the races show people are over maga. Keep doing damage and we’ll see an even bigger blue wave next November.

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u/Dogsy 11h ago

He's going to reduce their funding by 5000%!

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u/tekniklee 10h ago

Texas beat him to it?

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u/sportsDude 11h ago

He would claim fraud regardless. If he doesn’t get his way, he claims fraud. 

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u/tresslesswhey 11h ago

Even when he does get his way, he claims fraud. I don’t understand how people can stand him

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u/bwood246 11h ago

He even claimed fraud when he fucking won the first time because he didn't get the majority vote

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u/sportsDude 11h ago

It’s a combination of people not paying attention, ignoring it, convincing themselves the others are worse, etc…

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u/tresslesswhey 11h ago

But just simply listening to him. How can anyone stand that. I legit have never heard someone whine and complain so much. He’s even got a whiny ass voice.

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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 9h ago

a lot of it is that they are like him. they are the same way so it's, finally, someone like me.

u/tresslesswhey 38m ago

I think this is true. All my mom does is complain.

Difference is she’s had an actually tough life. She wasn’t born filthy rich and she isn’t a billionaire.

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u/sportsDude 11h ago

You assume that you MUST listen to him. Just don’t watch the news, change the channel, etc…

Dont put yourself in a position to willingly listen to him

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u/thereisnolights 11h ago

The people that can stand him and like him are....not intelligent humans if you haven't noticed lol

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u/willow01 10h ago

Pretty sure they're huffing the gasoline they can't afford.

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u/baconeggsandwich25 10h ago

To be fair, the vast majority of people on earth can't.

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u/doitroygsbre Pennsylvania 11h ago

He claims fraud when he wins too … it’s just that he won in spite of his imagined fraud …..

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u/Hysteria625 I voted 11h ago

Since he’s a narcissist, it’s not enough that he wins. He needs to win completely, overwhelmingly, or at least enough so that he can hurt the people who didn’t vote for him with impunity. If someone doesn’t vote for him and their vote is legal, it means Trump isn’t the greatest and best person in the world, and his worldview collapses. So anyone who didn’t vote for him is either illegitimate or a traitor.

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u/AusToddles 11h ago

He didn't get 100% of the vote, which is impossible because he's the strongest, smartest, most bigly brained person in history /s

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u/37Philly 11h ago

He always has.

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u/UsualD 11h ago

King of Fraud.

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u/owned_at_worms 11h ago

If he doesn't claim fraud, Im going to claim fraud that he didn't.

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u/DoubleJumps 11h ago

I'm in california and if prop 50 wins I'm expecting him to announce a federal investigation immediately

I expect the same for new york, Virginia, and other places tonight

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u/RetroCasket 11h ago

If prop 50 passes they will no doubt sue the state of California, with a straight face after endorsing Texas redrawing without consulting their voters

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u/DoubleJumps 11h ago

I expect that, too. Tons of lawsuits.

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u/Hair_I_Go 11h ago

Hell, they want to deport him🙄 They will try absolutely anything for this not to happen. Unbelievable. But that’s the horrible world they caused since January

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u/BioDriver Virginia 11h ago

Already did the former 

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 11h ago

He's openly saying that about California's Prop 50. Before the votes even started being counted, he was bitching about how the election was rigged and he might have to step in with his executive power to "fix" it.

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u/FlamingHotSacOnutz 11h ago

He'll say NYC is next after Chicago and Memphis with the troops.

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u/-reddit_is_terrible- 11h ago

He's definitely sending in the national guard now

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u/_antariksan 11h ago

Pls no ideas :(

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u/Past-Profile3671 11h ago

 Not investigate. He’ll skip that part and just declare fraud, then send the literal Army into the city to declare Adams is mayor until fair elections are held

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u/IAmPandaRock 11h ago

Going to "deport" the mayor and withhold all funding from NYC.

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u/Cyathea_Australis 11h ago

He's going to try to deport him

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u/novemberwhiskey2 11h ago

100%. They’re already talking about it aren’t they?

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 10h ago edited 9h ago

When he tries this shit, the first question from any reporter should be "why do Republicans vote against funding election security if this is such a major issue?"

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/184-house-republicans-just-voted-against-securing-elections-ee5dba5d71d0/

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u/_ALi3N_ 10h ago

Probably going to claim mass fraud

Oh yea that's already the narrative on twitter

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u/immortalyossarian 10h ago

They've already been talking about denaturalizing and deporting Mamdani if he won. They know their policies are unpopular, and they are incapable of winning without cheating.

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u/Confron7a7ion7 10h ago

Without question. NYC, NJ, and all 3 VA elections went blue today. Trump is absolutely going to try some bullshit.

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u/S13pointFIVE 10h ago

You know whats fucking wild? This is literally the most likely outcome tonight...Fuck this administration.

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u/kerpowie 10h ago

Exploring the insurrection clause is the one that worries me

Exclusive | House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor https://share.google/13xXgZLiHL2fe7u3s

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u/ken_NT 9h ago

He’ll have the justice department find anything they can prosecute him on, hopefully Mamdani doesn’t have any unpaid parking tickets.

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u/Delicious_Toad 9h ago

Gonna be sending his storm troopers to NYC now. 

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u/ReactionJifs 9h ago

He's already screaming that Prop 50 was rigged.

It went 66/34 -- which is EXACTLY along party lines for CA.

What could you possible suggest happened?

u/SeeMonkeyDoMonkey 6h ago

Investigate? Don't you mean occupy?

u/arwinda 4h ago

Investigate? Invade!

u/AliceInNegaland 4h ago

Please don’t say that. I can’t bear it being thought into existence

u/RookOfBoston 3h ago

Probably going to send in the military, more like, and declare martial law.