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New Yorkers are going to the mayoral election today with an unlikely frontrunner on the ballot: a Democratic Socialist whose rise from community organiser to likely next mayor has upended many assumptions about politics in America.
Zohran Mamdani, 34, is contesting against former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a former Democrat running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
Mamdani, who was born in Kampala to Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair and Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, has framed his campaign, and politics more generally, as shaped by the experiences he grew up around.
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