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By\u00a0Mohamed Harees<\/a>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lukman Harees<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhen an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody <\/i>gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible\u201d ~ <\/i>Saint Jhn<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is truly an earthquake in American politics<\/i>,\u201d said Krystal Ball, a leftist commentator and co-host of the popular online show\u00a0Breaking Points<\/i>. \u201cI genuinely see it as a blueprint for the future: a relentless focus on affordability, a relentless focus on material politics.\u201d<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

An obscure young Muslim socialist state legislator aged 34, ran an upbeat, issues-oriented campaign and leapt over the many obstacles to change and reform posed by New York City\u2019s byzantine political system. Despite strong opposition, and an extraordinary deployment of attack ads and oppo research by a coalition of opponents that stretched from the city\u2019s Democratic Establishment to the Trump White House, Mamdani has failed to self-destruct as many expected.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a rise that\u2019s been nothing short of meteoric. Many months ago, few residents knew his name. This gives some idea of the scale of his achievement. The numbers didn\u2019t deter him. He was virtually unknown at the start of the race,\u00a0 <\/span>with polls predicting 1%, versus disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s 33%, but on June 24, Mamdani won the Democratic primary decisively, garnering the\u00a0most votes\u00a0of any candidate in New York City primary history.\u00a0 He won not by algorithmic magic but by talking to a diverse group of New Yorkers \u2014 \u201cwhich should not be underestimated.\u201d As noted by\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0Cuomo ran a campaign limited to churches, synagogues and labour union meetings in front of sympathetic audiences. He resigned as governor in 2021 following allegations of sexual harassment. That same year, Mamdani went on a 15-day hunger strike in front of City Hall in solidarity with taxi drivers who were heavily in debt.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 4, Zohran Mamdani is tipped to be elected the first South Asian Muslim mayor of America\u2019s largest city. If the latest polls are any indicator with the latest 25-point lead over Cuomo, it\u2019s a\u00a092% certainty. The very real prospect of a Mamdani victory has captivated the country and energized many progressives on the one hand while shocking and infuriating the racist and Islamophobic lobby. It underscored the central idea behind democracy: voters speaking, mobilizing and choosing \u2014 even if the odds are stacked.<\/p>\n

Driven by a relentless focus on affordability agenda in New York with an exceptional ability to communicate, Mamdani listened to the grassroot views, and eventually built a passionate group of 90,000 mostly young volunteers. The young felt that \u2018Mamdani is for the people, he\u2019s real and what the new generation needs. It\u2019s time for the old generation to pass the torch.\u2019 Throughout his campaign, Mamdani has pledged to freeze rents on the apartments the city has some control over, make all buses free, make childcare free, and introduce cheap, city-run grocery stores. It is an agenda focused almost entirely on affordability. He aims, if elected, to make America\u2019s most expensive city at least a little more tolerable for the working class. His campaign thus resonated with American working-class concerns, especially those of\u00a0immigrants. His Democrat-socialist policies, disparagingly labelled \u201cLeftist\u201d by his detractors, struck a chord with youth and first-time voters in New York.<\/p>\n

If Mamdani is elected, as the youngest mayor in a century, the challenges ahead will be daunting , commanding the largest police force and education department in the US, and responsible for a municipal budget that exceeds $115bn. Mamdani\u2019s sudden success has riveted Democratic strategists around the country who see his brand of economic populism and attacks on billionaires and wealthy campaign donors as a\u00a0potential road map\u00a0to victory in the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s radical positions have shaken up the status quo in the U.S. and also rattled politicians across the board. Trump labelled him a \u201c100%\u00a0Communist Lunatic.\u201d When Mamdani said he wouldn\u2019t allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in New York should he become mayor, Trump\u00a0threatened to deport\u00a0him. \u201cWell then, we\u2019ll have to arrest him,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, we don\u2019t need a communist in this country \u2026\u201d. Mamdani hit back at Trump, stating he would \u201cnot be intimidated.\u201d He cautioned voters that Trump was trying to divert attention away from the core issue that mattered to New Yorkers \u2014 affordable living in the city.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s candidacy also triggered incredible resistance from across the political spectrum all over the country, including the media. Even the Democratic Party establishment, sought to derail his campaign even as popular support among New Yorkers continues to grow. His campaign triggered bipartisan panic, anti-Muslim racism and a full-scale attempt to obstruct his candidacy at every level.\u00a0Mamdani\u2019s views on Israel \u2014 consistent with international law and the human-rights consensus \u2014 have been treated as controversial and explosive.<\/p>\n

From the start, the media and moneyed class have been suspicious of Mamdani\u2019s rise, acting as gatekeepers\u2019 intent on keeping him out of power. The business elite of New York reviled him. He is up against the reality that no mayoral candidate has won, in the known recent past without significant backing from the real-estate developers, financiers and tech executives, who have been determining the course of governance in New York. They are worried their money doesn\u2019t seem to matter anymore as was before.<\/p>\n

No group has railed harder against Mamdani than the billionaires who have poured millions of dollars into stopping his meteoric rise. A recent analysis by\u00a0Forbes<\/i> found that 26 billionaires and members of billion-dollar families across the country have spent more than $22 million into defeating Mamdani through mailers, ads and other opposition messaging. It exposed the emptiness of American democracy; if it doesn\u2019t suit the elite and moneyed class, media gatekeepers and bipartisan power structures, they will gang together swiftly to contain it, irrespective of how the voters\u2019 trends are. Business elites thus are panicking about a socialist takeover, while Israel hawks aghast at a \u2018radical\u2019 like him in their view, reaching the City Hall \u2013 could only fume.<\/p>\n

For a political class deeply invested in maintaining the status quo, a Muslim mayor who speaks plainly about human rights represents not a threat to Jews, but to power itself. New York has never elected a Muslim mayor, nor one of South Asian descent, and being a Muslim, and a pro-Palestine seeking to win in the large-scale election in America\u2019s most Jewish city, repeatedly being accused by his opponents of hating Jews and promoting non-violent boycotts and sanctions of Israel, evidently looks a disadvantage. His charge that Israel committed genocide in Gaza may have angered\u00a0some <\/b>conservative\u00a0<\/b>segments of the Jewish electorate. Television and digital ads hammered him repeatedly, and it appeared, for a moment at least, that he might be sunk. But left-leaning Jews, horrified by Israel\u2019s conduct in the war in Gaza, stuck with him. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How did he break through? In his own words,\u201cYou have to speak in a language everyone can understand and see themselves in, and you also have to speak to the struggles that people are living through and the ones that dominate their day-to-day lives\u201d. \u201cPolitics should be about transformation, not transaction,\u201d he said, emphasizing his belief that grassroots movements, not corporate donors, are the true engines of democracy. Public reaction to Mamdani\u2019s remarks has been overwhelmingly positive among younger voters and progressives who see him as part of a new wave of leaders unafraid to challenge entrenched power.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has shown he\u2019s a deft campaigner who can command the attention of an electorate distracted by the stuff of New York life \u2014 subway delays, the latest Mets or Yankees drama, the controversy du jour engulfing Mayor Eric Adams. With an ever-present smile and snappy social media videos,\u00a0<\/b>Mamdani offers\u00a0<\/b>supporters despondent over\u00a0<\/b>Trump a form of political Prozac, an opportunity to repudiate what they see as the president\u2019s anti-urban and anti-immigrant agenda. He\u00a0 <\/span>has retreated from past calls to defund the police and his descriptions of the department as \u201cracist, anti-queer.\u201d<\/p>\n

People are backing him because they feel the powers that be ,can\u2019t control him. He\u2019s not big business. He\u2019s not going to go towards Trump. He wants to make things affordable. Even if he can\u2019t, at least he wants to try. They are all thirsting for someone who is not beholden to moneyed interests. To them, it\u2019s like a breath of fresh air. Mamdani has also mastered the use of social media, enamouring him to younger voters. In January, he dramatized his pledge to freeze rents by diving into the icy waters off Coney Island in his suit and tie, a moment captured in a TikTok video that drew more than a million views. His video about what he called \u201chalalflation\u201d \u2014 how the city\u2019s permitting process was driving up prices at carts selling food conforming\u00a0<\/b>to Islamic dietary laws \u2014 attracted another million clicks.<\/p>\n

The meteoric rise of the democratic socialist Mamdani has strengthened the sense that US politics is becoming ever more ideologically polarized. Given the fecklessness of centrist Democrats, Mamdani looks set to become the standard bearer of national left opposition to Donald Trump\u2014a role he seemed eager to play when he\u00a0addressed\u00a0Trump directly during a recent appearance on Fox News.<\/p>\n

Elections stand for more than the names on the ballots. Cuomo versus Mamdani was a clash between capitalism and democratic socialism, Boomers versus Gen Z, name recognition against rizz. Yes, \u201crizz.\u201d Google it. For marketing leaders, many of whom probably only started paying attention to the race after Mamdani\u2019s stunning, decisive primary victory, this contest might mean something else entirely. This was paid media versus earned media. For all the city, and eventually the country, to see. It\u2019s impossible to say what Mamdani\u2019s political future will be, but his communications strategies will endure long after the campaign wraps. His earned media playbook is built for our modern media realities. Brands should take note. Critics say \u201cthrough his campaign and what he can achieve as mayor, Zohran can show how big ideas aren\u2019t just for progressives but the overwhelmingly amount of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s rise signals a larger shift in the nation\u2019s political landscape, one defined by activists moving from protest lines to policymaking tables. His story resonates with a generation disillusioned by traditional politics but hungry for purpose-driven leadership. His campaign seems to be about more than a single election. It\u2019s about testing whether the left can build real power inside a party that has often treated it as a fringe nuisance. It\u2019s also about building new centres of power in a country overtaken by conservatism. The ripples of Tuesday 4th<\/sup><\/span> Nov night will be felt not just in New York, but in the whole country, and maybe even the world.\u00a0 Regardless of the outcome, Mamdani\u2019s campaign is already reshaping the political conversation. His ability to command media attention, fundraise through small donors, and mobilize volunteers at scale demonstrates the growing power of a new political generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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