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Zohran Mamdani, a prominent democratic socialist and state lawmaker, is projected to win election for New York City’s next mayor, delivering a seismic blow to the city’s deep-rooted power structures with all eyes on the future of a fractured Democratic Party charting its future against Donald Trump.
Mamdani, 34, will enter office as the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history and one of its youngest, now set to run one of the largest and most diverse cities in the United States.
The race was called by the Associated Press with roughly 75 percent of ballots counted, with Mamdani receiving more than 50 percent of the vote to Andrew Cuomo’s 41 percent — and Republican Curtis Sliwa appearing to make the difference between them
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