Here in New York, in a stunning victory, Democratic Socialist and New York State Representative Zohran Mamdani has defeated disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Cuomo conceded Tuesday night after Mamdani took a commanding lead, with over 43 percent of voters in the ranked-choice election. Mamdani took to the stage Tuesday night as supporters burst into applause at his election party.
Zohran Mamdani: “Today, eight months after launching this campaign with the vision of a city that every New Yorker could afford, we have won.”
If elected in November’s general election, Mamdani would become the first Muslim mayor of New York, and at 33 years old, its youngest mayor in over a century. We’ll have more on Mamdani’s historic victory later in the broadcast.