New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks against the backdrop of the Unisphere in Corona Park, Queens. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty Images
After Tuesday night’s fairytale in New York, Zohran Mamdani began his new life vowing to be a mayor for everyone while the US political establishment and business elite continued to warily eye his startling ascent.
Although advance polls had predicted that Mamdani, the 34-year-old socialist Democrat, would crush Andrew Cuomo, a dynastic figure in New York politics, the joyous election-night scenes across the boroughs offered an alternative to the ironclad convictions about how
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