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Betting sites believe Zohran Mamdani is the clear favourite to win this year’s New York mayoral election, but Eric Adams still has a chance of retaining the post. New Yorkers will head to the polls in November to vote for a new mayor, and Adams will defend the seat he won in 2021.
MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton urges Andrew Cuomo to withdraw from New York City mayoral race, suggesting a one-on-one contest would better serve residents.
By January, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assembly Members Zohran Mamdani and Harvey Epstein could all be serving in city government, triggering special elections to replace them in the state Legislature.
This drew the ire of President Donald Trump, who falsely claimed that Mamdani, who moved to the US at seven and was naturalized in 2018, was in the country illegally. Representative Andy Ogles hurled Islamophobic epithets at Mamdani on X and called for him to be denaturalized and kicked out of the country.
Governor Kathy Hochul is still leading her Democratic primary competition, according to a poll of New York voters.
Tuesday’s release includes ranked choice tabulations of all in-person votes and mail-in votes received and processed by Election Day. The BOE will continue to release tabulations for any remaining ballots, including cured affidavit ballots, on a weekly basis.
For those of us in the trenches of X, the meltdown was a familiar sight, echoing the contempt that the tech elite have directed at San Francisco for years, with the endless lamentations of anarchy at pharmacy branches in Union Square or the liberal policies of politicians like Aaron Peskin.
Hochul remains underwater with 42% of New Yorkers rating her favorable compared with 47% who rate her unfavorable, per Siena.
It’s been one week since New York City’s Mayoral Democratic Primary election, and the nation is abuzz with Zohran Mamdani’s win