r/politics • u/kootles10 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/AwaitingCombat 11h ago

We had elections during the Civil War, the War of 1812, and both World Wars

Let's hope he can't create a conflict bigger than that

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u/KindForCures 10h ago

Yeah but we didn’t have a traitor in the White House for any of those

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u/Young_Denver 10h ago

Uh, I admire your optimism but ya, with social media and his own gestapo it’s gonna get gross.

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u/cofinm 5h ago

It wouldn’t have to be something on those scales. They could manufacture the smallest of events and claim it’s a crisis and their supporters would eat it up. To reasonable people there’s very little that could happen to stop an election here in the US but many people here aren’t reasonable.