Here in New York, election officials have declared Zohran Mamdani the winner of last month’s Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Tuesday’s release of ranked-choice voting results shows Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and Democratic Socialist, easily defeated second-place finisher and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with 56% of the vote compared to Cuomo’s 44%. Mamdani won with over 545,000 votes, more than 27 United States senators received in their most recent elections. On Tuesday, President Trump threatened to arrest Mamdani over his campaign pledge not to cooperate with federal immigration agents carrying out Trump’s mass deportation orders.

President Donald Trump: “Well, then, we’ll have to arrest him. Look, we don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation. … A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally. He’s — you know, we’re going to look at everything.”

In a statement, Zohran Mamdani condemned Trump’s threat as an attack on democracy and pledged, “We will not accept this intimidation.” He also spoke with TV station NY1.

Zohran Mamdani: “What we’re seeing in President Trump’s rhetoric is an attempt to focus on who I am, where I’m from, what I look like, how I sound, as opposed to what I’m actually fighting for, because to do so would be to display the stark contrast in our sincerity and actually delivering for the very working people who’ve been left behind by our politics.”