In the reproach of a cynical democratic insider and New York Times The editorial page of the voters supported the democratic socialist for the mayor of the country’s largest city.

Zohran Mammani, a candidate for Mary in Democratic mode, takes the stage at his main election party, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in New York.
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In mid -June, New York Times Editorial Council is extremely dismissed by Inspired by Zoran Mammani’s application to become the next New York mayor. “We do not believe that Mr. Mammani deserves a place in the New York newsletters,” the council said. The editorial page of the newspaper, which for decades has influenced the direction of the Democratic Party in New York and at the national level, literally tried to write Mamdani from the discussion about the future of the city and the party. But Mammani, a democratic socialist who faced the support of dissidents, such as American Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and US representative Alexandria Okosio Cartes (D-NY), rejected the estimation of the race institution. Instead, he turned to the power of the people. With confidence that determined his violating campaign, said Mammani“This opinions are only about a dozen New York. Democracy will be resolved close to a million New York.”
Doing this, a 33-year-old, born Ugandan legislator of the Muslim state of Queens, which entered the Mayor of 2025, calling for a sharp Democratic Party, speaking with disappointed voters, created a key political test for the city and the country. Will there be democratic major voters in one of the most popular political competitions in 2025 more extended strikes? More reduced expectations? Narrower programs with limited attractiveness? Or they would have taken promise Mammani laid out in the morning in one of the hottest elections in the history of the city: “We are approaching the dawn of the new era in New York. We turn the page on the corrupt policy of the past that made this most expensive city in the United States of America”?
Voters strongly decided to turn the page by delivering Mammani a stunning finish for the first place In the original round of vote count for the democratic nomination for the mayor of the country’s largest city. Despite the fact that the final account will not be known on the days, due to the difficult choice system in New York, 43.5 percent-36.5 percent in Mammani leader-36.5 percent to former governor Andrew Kuoma-candidate in the usual wisdom, which resigned four years ago before the death of houses.
“Tonight we created history,” Mammani announced Shortly after the north, when he called many different neighborhoods in the city, where his campaign ended in the first in the pursuit of upset, which swayed the political world. “According to Nelson Mandela, it always seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York.”
Ironically, it was a kuoma – a candidate with the greatest money and the most adobrenki from unmatched political insiders, such as former President Bill Clinton, who failed why and how Mamdani prevailed. “It was not our night tonight,” Kuom’s crowd fans said in his unexpected speech. “Tonight was the night of the Mamman Assembly. He gathered a great company, and he touched the young people and inspired them and made them go out and vote. And he really held a very impressive company.”
So impressive that the Mammani was announced the winner before the voting process, which resulted in the votes that leaned for the loss of applicants in the 11th end field. It made sense because the third place in the competition was the NY controller Brad Lander, who won 11.3 percent of the total vote. In one of the most significant and moving the events of the main company, Mammani and Lander had cross He visited each other in the city along the unity ticket. Thus, it is assumed that most of the votes of Lander, as well as the votes of several other candidates who supported progressive groups, such as the Labor Party, will be redistributed in Mamman, making it a democratic nominee.
Lander, at the Mammani Victory Party, announced the result of the victory “a reliable vision of the future” over “the dark acid policy of the past”. But this victory is only the first step to the mayor. Mammani is still facing a tough, expensive universal competition against the mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, which is planned for a scandal that works by independent republican Kertis plum and, potentially, Kuom himself. And the company involved in Mamdani will have a lot of money because, as the US Nydia Velázquez spokesman said, early and enthusiastic Bell Mammani said on the night at the election, Mamman “threatens the business as usual.”
But the strength of the main finish of the Mammani-as the result of the company funded by the billionaire, the super-pac, which is funded by the billionaire, forcibly attacks it for the support of Palestinian rights, his connections with the democratic socialists of America, and his propaganda on accessibility, which includes rent, free buses and city cities. that they say that they say that they say that they are talking about what they are talking about what they are saying about what they are saying they are saying that they are saying that they are talking about what they are talking about prepared for the party. And political figures who once kept a distance, such as the governor of New York Katiel, suddenly praised the mandani “The formidable grassroots coalition … to ensure a safe, affordable and live New York.”
“The main thing is over now,” said the Prosecutor General of New York James, who supported Mammani’s competitor, the Speaker of the City Council Adrien Adams was at the election, but moved to the Mammani Victory rally to stand with him and promote the party, saying: “
This is important for New York Democrats. But this is also the next development in a broad debate about the Democratic Party’s future, which lost the presidency and control over Congress last fall.
“What’s going on in New York times argued Deng Pfeifer, former senior Assistant Barack Obama who now works POD SAVE AMERICA podcast.
Now Mammani will become one of the most famous Democrats who are facing how to “reject Donald Trump’s fascism”. He will also go, he said, “To manage our city as a model for the Democratic Party – a party where we fight for workers without forgiveness.”
This is not necessarily what the democratic institution wants. Not something that prefers the amin -buke of this institution.
A Term“Mamman’s assessment of the Mammani’s nomination repeated the sentiment of the defenders of the unsuccessful Democratic Party, which has been arguing for too long Rolled fightsBy reducing expectations and offering little inspiration. “Mr Mamdani, a charismatic 33-year-old guy, holds a joyous campaign full of viral videos in which he speaks with voters,” the editors wrote. “He offers a fresh political style, for which many people are hungry in an angry president Trump. Unfortunately, Mr. Mamdani works on the agenda unique to the city’s problems.”
Mammani, claimed the document, repeating the most painful political wisdom, “too often ignores the inevitable compromises of management.”
Really, Term Summarizing why Mammani provided his stunning finish first place in the main competition.
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A joyous company.
Fresh political style.
Refusal to submit requirements for compromise or accept “inevitable political compromises”.
A Term The writers did not imagine that the main democratic voters of the New York really wanted such a policy. But voters really want it. And, as Zohran Mammani announced in his speech victory on a hot summer night, “in our New Yaru power belongs to people.”
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