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IrishBubbaLiberal

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Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:14 AM Jun 25

How did little known Zohran Kwame Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary? Here's how [View all]


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/25/2329856/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-A-mayoral-race-like-no-other?

How did little known Zohran Kwame Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary? Here’s how. This was after the presidential election.Watch the tape:

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Mamdani won the youth vote. They powered him to victory. But he also won with those who want to make NYC affordable.

Mike Madrid/X via Threadreader:

One of the interesting things to look for is how working class Black and Brown residents voted. If these voters break left after moving towards Trump there’s a lot of water thrown on the ‘racial realignment’ narrative.

These voters are becoming more populist NOT more conservative
Voters are absolutely sick and tired of establishment politics. It’s not ideological and that’s what the parties, pollsters and politicians are missing.

The consulting class keeps trying to explain this phenomenon in their own partisan box & they keep missing it.
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