Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is on track to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor, after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to him Tuesday night following the first round of ranked-choice primary votes.
With 95% of precincts reporting two hours after polls closed at 9 p.m., 44% ranked Mamdani as their first choice while 36% chose Cuomo first and 11% had city Comptroller Brad Lander.
Mamdani emerged to raucus applause at his election party on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City, about 20 minutes after midnight.
a taste of the good timeline! refreshing! RCV is the way
33 year old accepting his political victory on an urban rooftop brewery is millennial as fuck lol
Congrats to Mamdani, and congrats to New York for sending a pretty clear message to cuomo that he’s not wanted. Yeah 36% is a lot of people but an 8pt differential is a staggering defeat.
And the polling suggested that pretty much everyone who ranked Cuomo had him first. Mamdani would likely have gained nearly all of the 20% of people who ranked someone else first if the instant runoff had continued.
For a dude who used to be governor and had a personal superPAC for the race, basically got slapped in the face lol. Hahaha fuck Cuomo and Adams. Here’s to Zohran winning the general and actually getting stuff done!
Andrew Cuomo wasn’t governor. Andrew was the guy from CNN. His brother was governor.
former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded
Chris Cuomo is the guy from CNN
I also wonder how many people had Mamdhani ranked second VS Cuomo.
Luckily we don’t need to know! Though I’m sure that will be released at some point
Good, all those neo-liberal tears falling into their martinis.
How a politician ot paid by aipac won? The idea that if you oppose israel it’s a political suicide is BS
I mean, it’s New York. Pretty much all cities are left leaning, especially in the context of how far right US politics have gotten, but New York in particular has a strong movement. I mean, they gave us AOC, too. I’m not sure if even LA with all these protests is going to have a legacy that strong, though Mamdani isn’t the mayor yet.
But for the politicians competing for gerrymandered districts where the mass of rural, Fox-watching morons control the outcome (aka most of them), opposing the genocide is still a tough sell. Just being not-a-Republican is basically a death knell for any of those campaigns.
I mean, it’s New York.
This. Plus ranked choice.
Yay!
Turns out to win elections you need votes, not money.
For now.
For smaller elections, the majors need capital, for now, which is why we have shitty choices.
