Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the impact of New York City’s mayoral election.
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani secured a comfortable victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral election, ushering in a new era of Marxist governance in the United States’ largest city.
Mamdani clinched his win with 50.4 percent of the vote when the Associated Press called the race. Former governor Andrew Cuomo (D.), who finished in second place in the party’s June primary, came up short again with 41.3 percent. Republican Curtis Sliwa—whom Cuomo’s camp has described as a spoiler in the race—netted 7.5 percent, not enough to have cost Cuomo the election outright.
Mamdani will enter Gracie Mansion as a historically left-wing mayor: He called for “seizing the means of production” while a New York state assemblyman and has long argued in favor of defunding the police, though he attempted to walk back that position after winning the nomination. He has also pledged to target “negligent” landlords and seize their properties, marking a significant expansion of city power and decreasing the quality of affordable housing for New Yorkers.
Other items on his to-do list include government-run grocery stores, free busing, free childcare, and rent freezes funded by the city’s taxpayers.
Mamdani’s history of radical anti-Israel rhetoric has caused concern for Jewish New Yorkers since he began his campaign. He has refused to condemn slogans like “globalize the intifada,” instead telling a group of New York CEOs that he stands by “the idea.” He has also pledged to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit New York and campaigned with a radical Islamist cleric who once urged “jihad” against the city Mamdani will now lead.
During his time in the New York State Assembly, Mamdani sponsored legislation that would have barred New York-based charities from working with Israel and declined to support Holocaust remembrance measures.
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