Democrat Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoral election in New York City, defeating independent Andrew Cuomo, according to projections by the Associated Press news agency.
Mamdani, 4, who calls himself a democratic socialist, will become the city’s first Muslim and person of South Asian descent as well as the youngest in over a century to hold the position.
In his victory speech, Mamdani said: “In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.”
“Together, we will usher in a generation of change, and if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves,” Mamdani said later, before challenging Trump directly.
This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one,” Mamdani said. “So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.”
The Ugandan-born Democratic socialist defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an Independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in Tuesday’s election, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
