New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,
Leftists already attacked him for not firing the cops involved in last winter’s snowball fight.
Kamala Harris received 1,748,140 votes in New York City,
Zohran Mamdani received 1,036,051 votes
Thank goodness he wasn’t getting more help from the Left.
Damn, almost like, there was some sort of third party candidate splitting the vote in his election.
Or the fact that people are idiots and a large % only vote every 4 years
Kind of proving my point there.
People had a choice between a known molester, an idiot, and the Democratic Socialist and the DS barely edged through.
It’s almost as if the progressives don’t have a commanding majority and have to work with others if they want to advance.
I mean, he still won a significant majority even with the vote split. And he won a majority In precincts that trump won In the election.
A more interesting question is, if there had been a been serious candidate to the left of Harris in the general election, would she have polled more like coumo did?
I don’t think it’s safe to assume that she would have won more votes than mamadani did in the same situation. And comparing the outcomes of a national 2 candidate race to a local 3 candidate race is not really telling you anything unless you introduce the counterfactuals and do polling to fill in those gaps.
Right now we’re seeing a lot of polling showing democrat socialists candidates outperforming corporate democrats in a lot of battle ground and purplish red states. Arguably attempting to appeal to coumo type voters damaged Harris’s chances In battle ground states by alienating unaffiliated voters.
Could just tell them what’s been told to progressives for decades, “Vote blue no matter who.”
I can’t think of one time in recent US history that a 3rd Party candidate split the ticket and hut the GOP.
In fact, the GOP regularly throws money to the Libertarians and/or the greens if they think it will help them.
If people had voted blue we might not have the Supreme Court that threw out Roe V. Wade.
You might want to read up on Frederick Douglas. In 1860 he had a choice of supporting a strong Abolitionist or Abe Lincoln. Lincoln had repeatedly said that he would keep slavery if it meant keeping the Union together.
Douglas knew all the horrors of slavery first hand, and knew that it made more sense to win and be on the inside than to lose and no be heard.
Ross Perot in '92 maybe?
We have a real bad “No True Scotsman” problem
I edited my comment to point out that Mamdani got fewer votes than Harris did when she ran in NYC, and Harris did worse against Trump than Biden did.
People vastly overestimate how popular their positions really are
lol You mean a presidential race got more votes than a mayoral race? Ya don’t say?
Mamdani got 51% of the vote going against sex criminal Cuomo and shock jock Silwa.
Harris got about 65% of the NYC vote.
No way can you pretend that ‘the Left’ beat the dems.
That’s still over 9% more than the runner up got.
In a three way election.
Without the support of his own party.
With tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars spent on 24/7 smear campaigns against him by both major parties.
With a unanimous local billionaire-owned media alliance fearmongering about him.
While spending a total of $10.7m
Compared to all that, the unequivocal DNC leader getting 65% in a presidential election where 100% of the party political machine was behind her, she was the only alternative to a literal fascist idiot and also sex criminal experiencing severe cognitive decline, and they spent over a billion dollars is absolutely PATHETIC.
Because general elections historically always have higher turn out. I think that’s what they’re trying to get at specifically.
Mamdani got fewer total votes AND a smaller percentage of the vote than Harris.
If you try to push the narrative that Mamdani and the Left were super popular you’re deluding yourself.
Hopefully he keeps doing a great job and brings in more voters.
But be real. He got very lucky when Adams got caught in a big scandal, and the only candidate the regular Party could find was already saddled with a giant scandal.
Higher voter turnout changes those percentages. You seem to be thinking that votes scale proportionally with turnout? That’s not always the case.
Anyway the more candidates you have the more split the vote will be. Plus the media/Trump campaign didn’t pump millions of dollars into a smear campaign against Harris in NY. Why? Because they didn’t expect to turn NY red so they focused resources elsewhere.
An insane sum of money was spent trying to put Mamdani down
Lmao
Lmfao.