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Zohran Mamdani has won a resounding victory in the New York mayoral election, heralding in a new era for the city as he promises to be “Trump’s worst nightmare.”
In his victory speech, Mamdani threw the gauntlet down to President Donald Trump, warning, “If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”
The 34-year-old Democrat led a grassroots campaign with unyielding momentum as he stormed to victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
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