New York (AP)-the breathtaking success of Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old himself described by Democratic Socialists, has re-exposed to the fiery divisions that the Democratic Party places placed in Donald Trump’s presidency in the race for the Mayor of New York.
On Wednesday, a novel round of the fighter from democratic civil servants, donors and political employees broke out on Wednesday, a day after Mamdani’s leading opponent, the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, the democratic preselection. Mamdani appears on a sliding path for nomination, although the voice count of the ranking will determine the end result next week.
Many progressive cheered the creation of the newborn and charismatic Mamdani, whose candidacy dealt with virus campaign videos and the focus on the cost of living. But the party’s more pragmatic wing threw the result as a stern setback in their striving to expand the attractiveness of the Democrats and to cross the controversial policy that the potential voters alienated in the recent elections.
In fact, the debate on Wednesday was much more than who would lead the largest city in America for the next four years.
Giddy Republicans regarded Mamdanis as a political gift that would contribute this autumn in New Jersey and Virginia in the middle of next year. And while such predictions are premature, the national conservative media concentrate on the New York elections with fresh zeal, which indicates that Mamdanis will surely grow as a prominent democratic guide.
Trump aimed at Mamdani on social media and called him “a 100% communist madman”.
“We have had radical leftists before, but it will be a little ridiculous,” wrote the president. “Yes, that’s a big moment in our country’s history.”
Some democrats also think.
Lawrence Summers, the finance minister under the former democratic president Barack Obama, triggered bad concerns on social media.
“I am deeply alarmed by the future of the (Democratic Party) and the country” because the results of the New York City, wrote Summers.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who had approved Mamdani, mocked about such democratic critics and instead asked them to follow Mamdani’s leadership.
“In many ways, Mamdani’s campaign really shows the direction in which the Democratic Party should move. And that is not worried about what billionaires want, but worried about what the working class want,” Sanders told The Associated Press.
Vermont’s senator warned the Republicans of premature celebration.
“People like Mamdani are their worst nightmares,” said Sanders about the GOP. “It is one thing for the Democrats to be strong against Donald Trump. It is another thing to make people right – a positive agenda.”
Assuming that Mamdani is ultimately the democratic candidate, he would change against competitive mayor Eric Adams, who runs as an independent runs as an independent runs as an independent runs as an independent runs.
Mamdani, a member of the state of the state of New York since 2021, won the main democratic voter with an hopeful message that focused on the cost of living, which was supported by a extensive basic campaign that produced thousands of volunteers in the city’s five districts. The initial district data show that he cuts off well in the wealthier enclaves of the city, while Cuomo, together with the more conservative island of Staten Staten Staten Staten Staten Staten Staten Staten Staten struggled in the areas of the majority.
Mamdanis climb was supported by Cuomo’s luggage. The 67-year-old Democrat tried to achieve a political comeback from a scandal for sexual harassment, who forced him to withdraw the governor of 2021.
Mamdani had to avoid an independent field of landmines that focused on his policy and political rhetoric.
In a social media post 2020, he described the New York police department “racist, anti-queer and a great threat to public security”. As a candidate for mayor, he alleviated his attitude and said that the police held an crucial role. Nevertheless, he urged himself to create a novel department for public security, which is more based on services for mental health care and public relations.
In Israel’s war in the Gaza, he used the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in the conflict. In the final expansion of the primary, Mamdani also defended the expression “Globalizes the Intifada”, which he described as “desperate desire for equality and equality for the Palestinian human rights”.
He was also criticized how he was withdrawing his identity as a democratic socialist, a label he had refused.
The Mamdani agenda includes free city bus service, free childcare, state-run grocery stores, a rental freeze for people who live in rental-regulated apartments and novel affordable apartments, which are paid to the opulent by increasing taxes.
Matt Bennett, co -founder of the third path of the Centrist Democratic Group, warned that Mamdanis’s policy is a political problem for the democratic party.
“The fact that Mamdani is young, charismatic, is a great communicator – all of these things are emulated,” said Bennett. “His ideas are bad. … and his belonging to the (Democratic Socialists of America) is very dangerous. It is already armed by the Republicans.”
Mamdanis aged and ethnic background also received from allies across the country. He would be the youngest mayor of New York City for more than a century and his first Muslim and Indian American mayor if he was elected.
After swiveling calmly during his main campaign in Mamdani, three of the best Democrats of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul, the democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, and the democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, praised the progressive promotion, but stopped confirming him after his victory was assured.
The democratic leaders, who mostly moderately moderate, welcomed his focus on affordability and said they spoke to him, although nobody said they would support him in the general elections in November.
Mamdani’s democratic critics feared that in autumn and in the intermediate elections of the next year, he would perform their task, which decides the balance of power in the congress even more arduous.
The group of Republicans against Trumpism, an crucial democratic ally in the 2024 elections, predicted that the Republican Mamdani “would make the face of the democratic party and to violate the moderate in swing areas and democrats the chances of taking the house back”.
In a radio interview on Wednesday with Wnyc, Mamdani admitted that his competition had become part of the national debate.
“It was tempting that I think some say that the party had left,” he said. “In fact, what has happened far too long is the task of the same voters in the working class who then left this party.”
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Matt Brown and Joey Cappelletti in Washington and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
