Zahran Mamdani hardly sleeps the night before. At 5:30 I am On Tuesday, on more than a decade in the city more than a decade, he welcomed journalists at a press conference in the Astoria Park, Queens, a piece of green color overlooking the eastern river, and not far from his stable apartment for rent. With the outbreak of today, the sky was behind the candidate white. Mamdani stood behind a naked platform and spread with an index finger on his phone, reading a short speech that cuts “architects” to the crisis of the ability to bear the costs in the city – and called his main opponent, former ruler Andrew Como – promising a way to preserve the city. As he read, his right hand shook a little.
Mamdani was asked, wearing a black suit despite the rise in the temperature of about a hundred degrees, what surprised him about his campaign. “The pace in which we became clear with Andrew Como surprised me,” he said. The speed of events was shocked in the past few weeks to the candidate, and it still seemed to be a man preparing for the possibility of a very real defeat. Mamdani added: “We have highlighted in the second place in this race before we expected.” Later, we sat on a warm curbing in Jackson Heights, we discussed his struggles to reach black voters in the city in particular. “I understand that when I go to the church and speak to the voters who were voting in the municipal elections for decades, and who knew the politicians for a similar period of time, knowing the name of a person and throwing everything they knew in the same case is a difficult task,” he told me. “This race started confessing to one name for every cent. Many of this race was one of the introductions.”
I asked Mamdani what he intended to do if he came second with Komo in the introductory elections. Will he try to run in the general elections this fall on the progressive progressive partisan polling line, and challenge the Democratic Party from abroad? He said: “It was my only focus a day, and I told you that it is sincerely.” I asked him, if he overcame Komo, whether he would invite the former ruler to leak, instead of running in the general elections as a resignation, as Kumo pledged to do so. Mamdani smiled and said, “I will spend the rest of the day thinking about it.”
Mamdani, now I say with the cheapness of a guilty party, his opponents were by his opponents, and pressure. Perhaps not at the beginning of the campaign, this winter, when it was, through his own description, “no name”, but certainly in the end, when his campaign exceeded the typical boundaries of the municipal political debate. (About 8 I am On the primary day, the Mamdani team took him to a secret meeting, which was found to be a video with Emily Ratajkovsky) “Oh, my God, thank you very much!” “Sex that confirms health care saves lives,” said a young traveler wearing large headphones, a nose ring and a bag on the engraving. A woman in scrubs shakes, pulled her face mask, and pulled her phone to show Mamdani a picture of her poster “I voted.” In Bronx, near Yanki Stadium, a group of schools were passed in madness. “I saw him on TV!” One screaming. Mamdani shook their hands and walked all of them as if they were awarded a prize. “He went out to us,” said a black woman named Rosa, who recorded the scene on her phone. “This is what the politicians used to do.” In the north of Manhattan, he was meeting on the street with a group of volunteers when a group of competition and smaller volunteers wore the como shirts. One of Cuomo volunteers has stopped Mamdani’s demand to take a personal photo with him.
Last Friday night, Mamdani walked along Manhattan from Inwood to Battery Park. The video clip of the campaign, which acquired the New York residents from all lines alongside their potential young leader in this step, was beautiful, a picture of the city on a hot summer night. However, while we talked about the sidewalk in Jackson Heights, it was clear that Mamdani felt that he was reducing him into a social media candidate. He carried a group of political goals-highly higher taxes on wealthy and companies, freezing the rent for stable apartments, free buses, sponsoring international children, and more-which helped him build support, and this should not be calculated for something in democracy? He does when you get votes. It seems that on Tuesday, he restored the city’s political maps, where he received remarkable support in Upper Manhattan, East Queens, and South Brooklyn – which is believed to be solid como. As of Wednesday morning, Mamdani achieved 43.5 percent of the first votes in the selection in the electoral system ranked in the city, where ninety -three percent of the expected votes were reported, which actually guarantees its victory when the votes of the low candidates are redistributed.
One public service that Mamdani has already provided to Medina: All of this ends the long political profession, education and harmful to ComoHe was trying to rehabilitate four years after resignation as a ruler in the sexual liberation scandal and abuse. In his campaign, Komo insisted that the city was in a state of chaos and that he only could repair it, while avoiding direct contact with voters and the press. He led in every survey of the race until its closing days; Approvals were influenced by the largest politicians, trade unions and community leaders in the city. And he carried himself as if victory was inevitable. Como spent nearly eleven years as a ruler, and every year, he used to accumulate more than power, even in the end he was the strongest ruler in the history of the state. His obsession has reached this situation that he signed A book of a book worth five million dollars To write notes that boast about his friendly leadership before there is even a vaccine, while dozens of New York residents were still dying on it Corona virus disease Every week. In the end, he was rinsed in the preliminary elections by a thirty -three -year -old socialist who was more than twenty -five million dollars. Simply, Komo reduced how tired of the New York population is. On Tuesday night, Brad Lander, the city’s observer, who ranked third in the race, said after he and Mamdani presented each other in the last days of the campaign, what many voters think: “good mockery.”
On the sidewalk in Jackson Heights, Mamdani and I talked about the new New York, which was formed by the youth alliance and the conscious messages of the class, and the old New York, which was identified by the ethnic blocs, institutions and neighborhoods. The era called the “distinguished side” of the elections, but he insisted that the old and the new should not be in a conflict. He said: “I felt comfortable in many of my conversations with the older New York residents, who told me that they had met the campaign by their son, daughter, daughter of their sister or sister.” “I think it indicates a new generation of driving.” Initial results showed on Tuesday that Mamdani abandoned Como in the poorest of the city through a total of thirteen percent, a fact that proposes the amount of work that Mamdani owns to establish himself as a candidate for the working class in the city. Mamdani said that the fugitive cost of living in the city was global, even if he was intense experienced by those in the city’s economy. He said that both tenants and homeowners feel pressure. He told me: “One in four New York residents lives in poverty, yet we know that more New York residents live in a state of permanent anxiety whether they can continue to provide the city.” “This anxiety extends through multiple income brackets, and explains the way in which this crisis is suffocating many degrees of life across this five town, and the crisis that threatens to make this city that was one day where you can make it the place where you can spend.”
