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New York City voters have elected self-described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor, and his victory speech immediately signaled a sharp leftward turn for the nation’s largest city.

Moments after being declared the winner Tuesday night, the 34-year-old lawmaker opened his remarks by invoking Eugene Debs, one of America’s most infamous radicals.

Debs was convicted of sedition in 1918 for urging resistance to the U.S. draft during World War I.

“I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity,” Mamdani said, quoting Debs.

During post-election coverage on Tuesday night, CNN contributors Van Jones and Scott Jennings didn’t seem particularly happy with mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s (D) angry victory speech. They found it a significant tone-shift from his campaign and believed it would only further divide New Yorkers and the “large tent” Democratic Party.

Left-wing Van Jones’s main takeaway from the speech was a lack of recognition: “I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech.”

He also thought some New Yorkers would have a hard time deciding if they fit in with Mamdani’s vision and admitted, “… he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent.”

New York City elected a communist to be its next mayor on Tuesday. Uganda-born Zohran Mamdani is projected to win more than 50 percent of the Big Apple. Over the next few days, professional Republicans will shake their heads and lament the outcome of the race. But few, if any, will acknowledge the truth: Mamdani’s victory is the direct result of mass immigration.

New York City wasn’t lost to a communist because the radical left out-organized the Democrat establishment. New York City was lost to a communist because we lost control of our borders — not just our southern border, but every single border separating the United States from the rest of the world. Mass migration, whether legal or illegal, is national suicide.

It would almost be a funny, hypocritical bit of parody — if it weren’t so darn serious.

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York City, is taking an expected victory lap after his Tuesday night special election win.

(Mamdani beat out independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and distant-third-place Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Former Mayor Eric Adams was also on the ballot, though he had withdrawn from the race prior.)

Mamdani took to X to celebrate his win and announce his initial transition plans.

See if you can find the joke (and no, I’m not talking about his horrifically phony smile) in the clip below:

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work. https://t.co/G7F2sbda74 pic.twitter.com/GQABMqJHgn

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) November 5, 2025

Was there some sort of cringe-fest competition last night? Because liberals in NYC and all across the country are celebrating the new Muslim mayor-elect, and it’s unclear who outdid themselves.

Firstly, I’m glad that at least some voters have realized they may — or may not — have just turned their city into a so-called “Muslim country.” What’s comical about that is that many of the countries they claim they’d rather move to wouldn’t even allow this kind of dancing on screen. You know, considering they’re women — and many of those countries don’t exactly have what you’d call “women’s rights.” It’s also ironic that many of them wouldn’t even be allowed to vote in elections in those same Muslim countries. But I digress.

Defeated in their efforts to keep an avowed socialist out of New York City’s Gracie Mansion, some Big Apple business leaders are turning to next year’s race for the New York governor’s office.

As news of Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani’s win in Tuesday’s mayoral race sank in, The New York Times reported Wednesday that Wall Street financiers are “already thinking about how they could blunt his most liberal initiatives, turning their attention to Albany, which has the power to block many of his proposals, like raising corporate taxes.”

And that could spell trouble for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Hochul is the Democrat who succeeded now former Gov. Andrew Cuomo when Cuomo resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal and lingering questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(“Lingering questions” is a charitable way to describe accusations that Cuomo’s administration was directly responsible for the COVID deaths of thousands of nursing home patients.)

One day after being elected Mayor of New York City, Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani has announced his all-female “transition team.”

His mayoral transition will be led by five socialist women.

What could go wrong?

Here they are:

Backup here if needed:

Zohran Mamdani announces his mayoral transition leadership team:

All Socialist women pic.twitter.com/My8nIeFmJ3

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) November 5, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, Nicholas Fuentes, and others of their ilk feast on resentment.

That America’s political soil is fertile for this effort isn’t surprising — globalism and fiscal profligacy put the American Dream out of reach for millions, while the decline of faith turned the deadly sin of envy into a virtue.

Faith had largely immunized America to ruinous class envy, as had the abounding visible examples of those who worked hard and made a better mouse trap.

The aim of political systems, insofar as they contend with wealth creation and property, is to do one of three things: to foster a system where all can optimize their individual capacity for making money; to protect those with property from those who want it; or to forcibly redistribute property along politically advantageous lines. The latter two systems — notably feudalism and Marxism — are not concerned with wealth creation, so much as they are with the question of who owns what.

The mass exodus from New York has already begun.

Following Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election win, rap legend 50 Cent says he has escaped New York!

After Tuesday night’s election results, he posted several social media posts rampaging against Mamdani’s regime and calling on his followers to leave New York, too.

In one post, the rapper claimed that NYC “is over.”

“Pack it up, let’s go!”

Check it out:

🔥🚨BREAKING: Grammy winning rap legend 50 Cent just revealed he ‘escaped New York’ after Zohran Mamdani won the mayor election. pic.twitter.com/lXQkRNiROr

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) November 6, 2025

Here’s another one of 50 Cent’s posts from after Mamdani won:

NYC Hip Hop artist 50 Cent just posted

RIP NYC. He is not happy about Zohran and the Islamic Regime taking over pic.twitter.com/cefCBvYONI

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) November 5, 2025

An overwhelming 84 percent of Gen Z women voted for socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in Tuesday’s election, while white men were the only demographic to vote against him.

According to NBC News exit polling, among women ages 18-29, 84 percent supported Mamdani. 67 percent of men in the same age group also voted for him. Overall, voters under 50 heavily backed Mamdani, while those over 50 broke for his opponent, former Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Mamdani won across most demographics, leading among both men and women overall, as well as voters identifying as “very liberal,” 84 percent of whom supported him. The only racial group that leaned against Mamdani was white New Yorkers, who went 46 percent for Cuomo and 45 percent for Mamdani. White men in particular favored Cuomo 49 percent to 42 percent.

The ink on those cursed ballots is barely dry, and already the stench of betrayal hangs heavy over the skyline of New York City, that once-unconquerable fortress of American grit and ingenuity. Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old firebrand of foreign birth and socialist fury, has seized the mayoralty like a conqueror planting his flag on enemy soil. Uganda-born, South Asian-rooted, and steeped in the toxic brew of far-left radicalism, he now stands as the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian, and first avowed socialist overlord – a triple-threat abomination that mocks every principle our forefathers bled for. With 50.4% of the vote, he trounced Andrew Cuomo’s 42% and left Curtis Sliwa’s pathetic 7.1% in the gutter, all while crowing about a “mandate for change” that reeks of chains and collectivism. And in his victory speech?

CNN’s Van Jones was not a fan of Zohran Mamdani’s angry, far-left, rage-filled victory speech:

“I think he missed an opportunity. I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present… pic.twitter.com/aM2AlcgM1U

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2025

CNN panel gloats in laughter as Scott Jennings delivers a blunt warning to the Democratic Party.

It began with Mamdani’s win, when Jennings issued this message for Chuck Schumer: “AOC is going to be the next senator from New York.”

But the real warning came when he saw… pic.twitter.com/CQt2KO5uU2

— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) November 5, 2025

“I see the energy in Virginia Democrats looking the other way on a violent candidate for attorney general who says he wants to murder Republicans and their children. If you think you’re getting rid of Graham Platner in Maine now, think again. This is a terrible night for the national Democratic image given what is happening inside their party.”

Jennings pressed on: “Mamdani is an avowed socialist. It’s not what people say that he is. It’s what he says that he is. He’s now the leader of their party. That’s their energy and Chuck Schumer’s —”

Democratic New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to take office on Jan. 1, 2026, but the 34-year-old self-avowed socialist will face significant obstacles in his transition from campaigning to governing, political analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Mamdani won Tuesday night’s mayoral election with barely a majority of the vote cast, receiving 50.4% of the vote, less than 10 points ahead of his closest rival, former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who garnered 41.6%. Although he still came up short, Cuomo — who ran an independent campaign after losing the Democratic nomination to Mamdani on June 24 — outperformed multiple pre-election polls, some of which showed the socialist leading by as many as 25 points.

After the race was called in his favor, Mamdani took the stage at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, where he delivered a heavily scrutinized victory speech in which he took jabs at both Cuomo and President Donald Trump.

Credit to The New York Times editorial board for pausing its longtime campaign to destroy the country, if even just for a day. Apparently the mayoral victory of a communist in its hometown is cause for some concern.

At the top of an editorial late Tuesday, the Times congratulated Zohran Mamdani for his winning campaign. Then the paper dove into a panicked plea for the Ugandan native to please, oh please not be everything he promised to be.

“In almost every area that featured prominently in the mayoral campaign,” wrote the Times, “Mr. Mamdani can improve life in New York by marrying his admirable ambition to pragmatism and compromise.” The paper told him to “start by building a leadership team light on democratic socialists and heavy on officials with records of accomplishment and proven management skills.”

I’m sure the little revolutionary will get right on top of that.

When a major media outlet says “pragmatism” and “compromise,” it means 2010-era Democrat preferences such as race quotas and high taxes on middle-income earners to fund “green energy” projects. But those are the very garbage policies that turned a once-great city into a dump, along with the brilliant 2020 Democrat trend of “defunding the police.”

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It’s pretty clear that Qatar’s government-regulated media thinks the Mamdani election is tied—positively—to the October 7 attack—something referred to as the Al-Aqsa Flood. This is the bloodthirsty, Jew-hating position Qatar is taking. You may think you’re safe from their Islamic holy war because you are not Jewish. But you’re wrong. They are coming for you.

MEMRI reports: Qatari journalist Abdullah Al-Amadi wrote on his X account: “What is happening in the U.S. is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the outcomes of the Al-Aqsa Flood. The American public has understood—after many long years of imposed slumber, in which Zionism played a role—that supporting injustice and oppression is a moral failure…. Ayman Azzam, a presenter on the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, shared a post by Somali social media activist Hiba Shukri that attributed Mamdani’s victory to October 7 and the boost it gave to the anti-Israel movement. Azzam commented: “The world is changing; The manifestations of the Flood have an impact” (MEMRI). Eitan Fischberger: Qatar has worked hard to pose as a close ally of President Trump. But in reality, the regime despises Trump, America, and the West. So it’s no surprise that Qatari officials and influencers couldn’t hide their glee over Mamdani’s win — and they’re making it about the Jews (Fischberger).