Furthering the Big Apple’s descent into communism, New York City voters elected radical Democrat Zohran Mamdani to be their next mayor on Tuesday.
According to several media outlets, the Ugandan-born Mamdani is projected to defeat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa in the race to lead one of America’s most populous cities.
As of publication, preliminary results show Mamdani winning 50.4 percent of the electorate with 90 percent of votes tabulated. Meanwhile, Cuomo and Sliwa are projected to receive 41.6 percent and 7.1 percent of the vote, respectively, according to early results.
The race’s outcome indicates a strong preference among NYC voters for the type of communist-style policies Mamdani has touted in years past and throughout his campaign.
As The Federalist previously reported, “Mamdani has reportedly voiced support for taxpayer subsidization of so-called ‘trans’ surgeries (including for minors) and health care for illegal aliens, government-owned grocery stores, ‘free’ bus fare and child care, hiking the corporate tax rate, and limiting the NYPD’s ‘duties relating to mental-health crisis intervention, homelessness outreach and traffic ticketing,’ according to the [New York] Post.”
In years past, Mamdani has also echoed leftist calls to defund the police — a position that became popularized among the modern left during Black Lives Matter’s and Antifa’s 2020 “summer of love” riots.
“We can’t reform a system working exactly as designed — to control Black, brown & poor New Yorkers,” Mamdani wrote in a June 2020 tweet. “We need to defund the police, get them out of matters they have no business in, free the thousands locked up unjustly & invest the savings in those most impacted by state violence.”
Those aren’t the only extreme positions the self-professed socialist holds either.
As The Federalist previously reported, Mamdani has “also espoused pro-Hamas sentiments and was previously arrested for participating in a ‘pro-Palestinian’ demonstration outside of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s New York residence in 2023.” He’s additionally cozied up alongside known jihadists such as Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1, 2026. According to the New York Post, “he will be the first immigrant to serve as the city’s leader since Abe Beame was elected in 1974.”
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Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
