Zohran Mamdani Shares Vision for New York City after Primary Victory

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has conceded New York City's Democratic mayoral primary to Self-described Democratic Socialist state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night.

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Andrew Cuomo concedes the New York City mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani, who leads in the first-choice vote www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele ...

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... The vote takes place about four years after Cuomo, 67, resigned as governor following a sexual harassment scandal. Yet he has been the favorite throughout the race, with his deep experience, nearly universal name recognition, strong political connections and juggernaut fundraising apparatus.

The party's progressive wing, meanwhile, has coalesced behind Mamdani, 33, a self-described democratic socialist. A relatively unknown state legislator when the contest began, Mamdani gained momentum by running a sharp campaign laser-focused on the city's high cost of living and secured endorsements from two of the country's foremost progressives, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-24 10:13 PM

The place is going to go to ---- if he gets elected, and it's exactly what the city deserves.

#2 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-25 12:49 AM

No surprise among those of us who have been following the campaign closely. The Democrats need to change. We need to appeal to the next generation and finally be done with the old guard. Mamdani is the face of needed change.

#3 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-06-25 01:44 PM

The place is going to go to ---- if he gets elected, and it's exactly what the city deserves.

#2 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Translation: "Make New York City into Mississippi or I'll cry! Meth for everyone!"

#4 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-25 02:22 PM

"What Zohran's victory proves is that when people have something to vote for rather than just vote against, our progressive agenda can win".

-Bernie Sanders

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 02:51 PM

Americans are tired of Republicans who only serve the oligarchs and democrats who only serve the corporatists.

It's time for progressives to demand we move our country forward into a new era of liberalism.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 02:54 PM

#6: You said it. A vote for the Republicans is a vote for the oligarchs; a vote for the Democrats became a vote for ethnic cleansing. The Dems are no longer the party of FDR and JFK.

The three Dems who opposed the impeachment of Dummkopf Trumpf, the tool who bombed Iran: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar are all AIPAC mega-recipients. See my previous comment on the pelf they get.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-25 03:07 PM

MAGATS like Wafflecone need to be culled.
And soon.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-25 03:25 PM

a vote for the Democrats became a vote for ethnic cleansing.

I don't really see there being a difference between the two parties when it comes to their subservience to Israel. Democrat or republican, they will jump when Israel tells them to.

The problem with democrats is they abandoned the working class in favor of representing corporate America, something which prior to Bill Clinton, Republicans typically championed. This was in due to Reagan and Republicans dominating the 80s.

So democrats shifted their focus to right of center policies they felt were more popular with moderates.

In response, Republicans shifted their allegiance from corporate America to the oligarchs, and from right of center policies to fringe rightwing policies.

That's were we are today. Democrats and republicans fighting to represent the richest people in America and no one representing average Americans.

This is what the revolution in the Democratic Party is hoping to achieve. Because unless there is a change within the party, it's dead.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 03:26 PM

#9: Concur. And besides the Dems losing touch with the average hardworking American, they will need the 6,265,888 antiwar samaritans the Dems lost in 2024 that they had in 2020 if they want to win razor-close national elections in the future. This bloc will grow, and like myself, will not vote for an AIPAC-funded Dem or Rep. Our consciences will be clear: www.washingtonpost.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-25 03:56 PM

#3 | POSTED BY MODER8

What a ridiculous statement,

He was losing big time until TikTok promoted his videos in the last week or two.
emersoncollegepolling.com

How TikTok Fueled Zohran Mamdani's Rise
www.nationalreview.com

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-25 04:50 PM

And besides the Dems losing touch with the average hardworking American,

This is true, minorities and PoC didn't vote for Zohran, but rich college educated did.

And yet Zohran's father is a professor of Postcolonial Critical Theory and African Studies at Columbia University.

Crazy just ------- crazy.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-25 04:53 PM

minorities and PoC didn't vote for Zohran,

Resorting to racism all you got?

Lump you.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 04:55 PM

The place is going to go to ---- if he gets elected, and it's exactly what the city deserves.
#2 | Posted by Bluewaffles

So...
About that..
You saying they didn't deserve Cuomo?

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 04:59 PM

"Crazy just ------- crazy."

Well, it's New York City. This is where a guy like this can get elected.

Let's see if he can win a general election and govern responsibly.

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 05:02 PM

Well, it's New York City. This is where a guy like this can get elected.
Let's see if he can win a general election and govern responsibly.

Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 05:02 PM | Reply

Well Donald Trump was a New York City resident when he was elected president back in 2016. Just sayin

#16 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-25 05:07 PM

"This is where a guy like this can get elected."

Yeah. Only in crazy, far-out New York City could somebody get elected through hugely popular proposals like these:

The Platformn www.zohranfornyc.com
New York is too expensive. Zohran will lower costs and make life easier.
Housing
Freeze the rent.
Building affordable housing.
Cracking down on bad landlords.
Supporting homeowners and ending deed theft.

Safety
The Department of Community Safety

Affordability
City-owned grocery stores.
Fast, fare free buses.
Fighting corporate exploitation.

Early Childhood & Education
No cost childcare.
Baby baskets for New York's newborns.
K-12

Paying for Our Agenda
Taxing Corporations & the 1%

Climate
Green Schools For A Healthier NY

LGBTQIA+ Protections

Healthcare

Labor
Raising the minimum wage to $30 by 2030.
Regulating delivery apps & protecting delivery workers.

Small Business

Libraries

Trump-Proofing NYC

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 05:10 PM

#17: "Argh! This Hamas guy sounds awful wanting to help poor people and Trumpf-proofing the Big Apple! Argh! Send him to Alligator Alcatraz! He's a Marxist Hamas Socialist Mexican Muslim from Africa! Blargh!"

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-25 05:15 PM

"Zohran Mamdani Shares Vision for New York City after Primary Victory"

I will push the Jews into the Sea!
--Zohran Mamdani, according to Republicans.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 05:17 PM

Government run grocery stores is hilarious.

#20 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-25 05:45 PM

Democrats say they oppose Communism and then go full in for a Communist.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-25 05:46 PM

Government run grocery stores is hilarious.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-25 05:45 PM | Reply

Reminiscent of the old company store from back in the day.

#22 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-25 05:56 PM

Government run grocery stores is hilarious.
#20 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

If your boy Trump is successful, we can look forward to breadlines.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 06:00 PM

As Democrats, the Cuomo mini-dynasty did wonderful for themselves in NYS while doling out patronage positions and contracts. If dauphin Cuomo runs as an Independent against Zohran Momdani, he will be just another Judas Iscariot betraying the party that was the vehicle of his previous successes.

"Israel and AIPAC comes before Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party, NYC, and the US! Blargh!"

#24 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-25 06:00 PM

Democrats say they oppose Communism and then go full in for a Communist.
#21 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

What a meaningless statement.

You can't define what communism is or what Democrats want if your life depended on it.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 06:02 PM

-Yeah. Only in crazy, far-out New York City could somebody get elected through hugely popular proposals like these:

your words, kiddo. Not mine.

"Self-described Democratic Socialist"

doesn't really play in most cities in America.

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 06:08 PM

You can't define what communism is or what Democrats want if your life depended on it.

#25 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Them evil Dems and Socialists and Communists living in his head can.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-25 06:13 PM

"Democrats say they oppose Communism and then go full in for a Communist."

They voted for a democratic socialist vs a former disgraced governor.

It's not like New Yorkers WANT a communist as mayor.

#28 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 06:41 PM

Legally, post your address and I'll come pay you a visit. We can see if you have the balls to say that to my face.

#29 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-25 06:42 PM

As for others, I genuinely hope this idiot wins. NYC deserves to go into the shitter.

#30 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-25 06:46 PM

"Self-described Democratic Socialist"
doesn't really play in most cities in America.
#26 | Posted by eberly

Oh I get it. Socialism Bad, like Socialized Medicine. Most cities in America are full of dummies who still believe the Republican talking points.

You might be on to something there.

Just a few West Coast cities and I dunno, Ann Arbor and places like that aren't Kool-Aid Drinkers when it comes to the Socialism.

It requires significant wealth concentration and concentration of educated people (but I repeat myself) to form a critical mass of people who think government can and should help the common man, aka Socialism.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 06:52 PM

"NYC deserves to go into the shitter."

Wait, so you're saying it isn't already, what with the protests and the Zucotti Park atrocities the liberals did fourteen years ago?

It isn't already in the shitter from that? Help me out here.

And what about Trump's investments, shouldn't those be protected from this madness?

Trump should take over New York City like Republicans took over Flint and made you so proud.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 06:56 PM

NYC deserves to go into the shitter.
#30 | Posted by Bluewaffles

It's not already? HAHA! Nice self-own, cultist.

#33 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-06-25 06:57 PM

"NYC deserves to go into the shitter."

Maybe you can appeal to Dear Leader to send in the Marines to liberate them from the socialists.

#34 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-25 07:00 PM

Government run grocery stores is hilarious.
#20 | Posted by BellRinger

It's not exactly a grocery store.

But if you'd ever served your country, you would know the NEX/PX has good shit for cheap.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 07:00 PM

Snoofy, I genuinely want this to occur because it will be an unmitigated disaster. I want people to see what implementing these policies does to a population and NYC can be the controlled experiment. The place will go to the crapper. Allow the Champaign Socialists on the Upper West Side unleash this hell on the rest of the city. I am genuinely cheering this on because I know already how it ends and I want to watch the Left fulfill their true inner government desires and have it blow up in their faces.

#36 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-25 07:02 PM

They voted for a democratic socialist vs a former disgraced governor.

What's a democratic socialist and why should Americans be so afraid of them?

It's not like New Yorkers WANT a communist as mayor.
#28 | POSTED BY EBERLY

That's good, because there isn't one running for mayor.

Did you have a point?

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:05 PM

Notice how, to a man (a gender that includes GracieAmazed but not Eberly), it's very pointedly NOT:

"New York deserves to have effective, competent leadership that will make New York a Pinnacle of American excellence."

Republicans are cheering for America's premier landmark city known and loved the world over to fall into chaos and ruin.

They're cheering for that because NYC voters rejected Trump.

The GOP is a Death Cult.

#38 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 07:07 PM

"It's not exactly a grocery store."

Dingaling is hilarious. He proves how ignorant he is everyday.

I loved the Korean open air markets but the government run grocery store (commissary) at Osan airbase in Korea was awesome. I would drive all the way from Camp Humphreys to Osan to stock up.

Now they even have online ordering and curbside service.

corp.commissaries.com

#39 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-25 07:08 PM

Snoofy, I genuinely want attention.
#36 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

We get it, Blue. We get it.

You'd rather crown the first king of America than have any tax dollars going to help poor people, because some of them aren't white.

Same strategy Conservatives have utilized since they lost the civil war and Black Americans started gaining civil rights.

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:08 PM

I am genuinely cheering this on because I know already how it ends and I want to watch the Left fulfill their true inner government desires and have it blow up in their faces.
#36 | Posted by Bluewaffles

See, we think it's weird that you're cheering for another 9/11.

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 07:10 PM

"Snoofy, I genuinely want this to occur because it will be an unmitigated disaster."

What is "this?"

Rent control? Grocery stores? Burning all the Jews which is what the Liberals really voted for?

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 07:12 PM

This is where a guy like this can get elected.
#15 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Not white?

Exactly what are your objections to Mamdani?

His religion? Not putting Israel first? "Communism"?

Face it. You're just knee jerking to the smear campaign republicans and Corporate owned democrats are launching against him.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:13 PM

Eh, at least Eberly didn't say NYC needs to get hit with an IDF neutron bomb to keep America safe from Muslim terrorists, like the rest of the Republicans are saying.

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-25 07:22 PM

-Did you have a point?

That people had 2 options and the non disgraced ex governor was one of them.

Shouldn't be too shocked people voted for the other guy.

#45 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 07:26 PM

What's been revealed over the past few years is just how much control Israel has over America.

Unfortunately for them, most Americans are done with their bullshht and are holding politicians accountable for putting the needs of Israel ahead of the needs of America.

#46 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:27 PM

-What's a democratic socialist and why should Americans be so afraid of them?

I'm not afraid of them.

#47 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 07:29 PM

people had 2 options and the non disgraced ex governor was one of them.

It's weird democratic elites were pushing so hard for the disgraced ex governor.

It's been over 40 years that both parties have been controlled by the same group of people.

Trump did provide an alternative to the illusion of choice, but unfortunately, he's a failure and a loser. He's running the country using hate and lies, and it seems to be working. Idiots are eating his bullshht and begging for seconds.

Thankfully the Democratic Party is changing. It will represent working class Americans again and this scares the oligarchs.

They're going to smear Zohran Mamdani as hard as they can in hopes no one ever dares challenge them again.

#48 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:33 PM

Jesus, you're as desperate for my attention as Snoofy.

I have zero problems with this guy.

The knee jerker here is you, little fella.

Go smoke something to calm you down.

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 07:35 PM

"Thankfully the Democratic Party is changing. It will represent working class Americans again and this scares the oligarchs. "

It will once candidates like this win general elections.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

#50 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-25 07:36 PM

I have zero problems with this guy.

Don't you?

The socialist, communist Muslim progressive who didn't bow to Israel?

Because, that's who Zohran Mamdani is being packaged as by the main stream media. By both Republicans and old guard Democrats.

I doubt anyone here can accurately describe his policies. Because I haven't read any of them being discussed.

All I've read are trolls repeating the propaganda they've been fed.

#51 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:40 PM

It will once candidates like this win general elections.
Don't get ahead of yourself.
#50 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Agreed and agreed

#52 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 07:40 PM

Bell,

"Government run grocery stores is hilarious."

I'm sure they'll prosecute shop lifters.

#53 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-06-25 08:05 PM

Bell,

More likely they'll just set up a fast lane for looters.

#54 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-06-25 08:13 PM

Clownshack, the working class of NYC overwhelmingly voted for Cuomo +19 whereas the rich smug assholes of the city overwhelming voted for this moron. Again, I am cheering this one on bc the working class knows where this leads and I want to watch the wealthier libs of the city get excoriated for this idiocy.

#55 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-25 10:11 PM

@KingOfComix

Hey Democrats. I don't mean the chuck Schumer bill Clinton Nancy Pelosi Democrats

I'm talking the Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, Robert Garcia, Zohran Mamdani DEMOCRATS

We need more of this. PRIMARY all of the old guard. Change the party from within. Trump hijacked the GOP. The people need to hijack to DNC

#56 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-25 10:17 PM

It's hilarious that any Democrats think this guy is the future of their party.

#57 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-25 10:35 PM

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