Mamdani’s trouncing of Cuomo marked the biggest national victory for lefties since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her first election in an upset over entrenched Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018, Smith said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams raised more than $1.5 million from donors in the seventeen days after the city’s Democratic mayoral primary, nearly double the amount brought in by Zohran Mamdani, whose stunning win reinvigorated the incumbent’s struggling campaign.

In a town where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall. That bloc is squarely behind Mamdani and fighting hard for victory in November.

AOC, who loudly backed Mamdani during the primary, said she was eager for people in DC to meet her fellow lefty firebrand face-to- face to hear his plan for NYC.

In the latest campaign finance reporting period – which stretched from the final two weeks of the Democratic primary to the first couple weeks after it – general election contenders continued to raise money,

The poll results emerge as Cuomo relaunched his campaign as an independent following his primary defeat by Mamdani.

Democratic nominee for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani was pulled offstage by a campaign staffer as he tried to answer more reporter questions following an endorsement event.

Zohran Mamdani’s win is driving national excitement for Democrats, as MAGA faces a civil war over Epstein fallout, but some Democratic elders doubt the turn left. In this special debate, Democrats with opposing views,