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In a stunning political upset, Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>, 34, has been elected New York City\u2019s next mayor<\/strong>, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo<\/strong> and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa<\/strong> in a landslide. Garnering over 1.03 million votes<\/strong>, Mamdani not only surpassed his rivals\u2019 combined total but also made history as the city\u2019s first Muslim mayor<\/strong> and the first of South Asian heritage<\/strong> to hold the position.<\/p>\n Even before Election Day, tensions between the progressive Mamdani and President Donald Trump<\/strong>were already high. Trump, who has long considered New York his \u201cfirst home,\u201d dismissed Mamdani\u2019s candidacy as \u201cinconceivable,\u201d labeling him \u201ca pure communist.\u201d Ahead of the vote, Trump warned via Truth Social<\/strong> that he would withhold federal funding<\/strong> from the city if Mamdani won, urging voters to support Cuomo instead.<\/p>\n Following the city\u2019s highest voter turnout in over fifty years\u2014more than two million ballots cast\u2014Mamdani took the stage on Tuesday, November 4, to deliver a fiery victory speech. \u201cNew York will remain a city of immigrants\u2014built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,\u201d he declared. Then, addressing the former president directly, he added: \u201cDonald Trump, since I know you\u2019re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u03bc In a stunning political upset, Zohran Mamdani, 34, has been elected New York City\u2019s next mayor, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in a landslide. Garnering over 1.03 million...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6859,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions\/6859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}