Mamdani elected New York Mayor

MG55 a former NY police lieutenant and also the Houston police. Just saw all this on the news

Oreo - Mamdani has never been a centrist.

Thank you Artois for the information. I take it that you are in America.

I expect those police officers who might be corrupt would look to move elsewhere. After all, we are also trying to root out our corrupt Metropolitan Police officers.

Arto1s

MG55 a former NY police lieutenant and also the Houston police. Just saw all this on the news

I wonder which news channel you are watching?

Arto1s

IOMGran You don’t think what…..

That I believe you.

Re the police Mamdani's stance has moved on. Are you going to not allow anyone to evolve their stance?

Zohran Mamdani apologized to the NYPD primarily because he wants to work collaboratively with the officers and recognizes the risks they take serving the city. He expressed regret for the harsh language he used in 2020 during the George Floyd protests, when he called the department "racist," "wicked," and "corrupt." Mamdani explained that back then, it felt like safety and justice were far apart, which fueled his frustration and critical comments. His apology reflects an evolution in his views and a desire to build a working relationship with the police force, acknowledging the complex demands placed on NYPD officers, who now respond not only to serious crime but also to mental health and homelessness calls. This was articulated publicly during a Fox News interview, where he apologized directly to rank-and-file officers he had previously criticized.

J52. I give up. You really think NYPD are corrupt if they leave New York? How do you figure that?

Arto1s

Apparently, NYPD officers are now looking to move out of state to other States that are Republican states. Good.

On that we can agree, no loss to NYC and gives them a chance to recruit better people.

Mamdani took every borough bar 1 - Staten Island which voted for a socially conservative democrat.

Trumps party got 5% of the vote

The democrats totalled 94% of the vote - Mamdani 57% and Como 37% of the vote.

MG55

Arto1s

MG55 a former NY police lieutenant and also the Houston police. Just saw all this on the news

I wonder which news channel you are watching?

Just a wild guess... Fox?

So, back to the claim about 'anti-semitism'.
Is it another example of the frequent conflation between being anti-Israeli Gaza destruction and being anti Jewish?

MG55 which news channel do you watch? What does it matter?

reading the above posts about the NYPD and their officers moving out to a Republican area - the 5% must be the police officers!

Oh yes, he apologises to NY police now of course he needs them on his side, but that will be doubtful.He knew all those facts when he said what he did about the police, it’s simply clawing back and grovelling now that he’s in a position of power.
I guess the time to comment on what he actually does is a few years down the line.

I am heartened that we have fresh new blood challenging the old order both here and in NYC ! I hope I live long enough to see changes ! I might not agree with all they want to achieve but I love their bravery to take on the existing lot!!

Arto1s

J52. I give up. You really think NYPD are corrupt if they leave New York? How do you figure that?

That’s why I used the word ‘might’.
Off now, I have a busy day.

I’m surprised that Cuomo got the number of votes given his reputation. But then I guess people voted for Trump and look at his past history.

Arto1s

MG55 which news channel do you watch? What does it matter?

Hopefully that was a rhetorical question 🙈
Because each news channel has its own bias in the way it presents information (or omits information) so one needs to question what one reads / hears to see all sides and become fully informed.

Nobody is truly unbiased MG55 it’s just not humanly possible.The best we can hope for is to try and evaluate both sides before reaching a decision and present it on here with a bit of politeness.We can all be wrong about a person, a government and a situation at the time of writing.

Oreo thank goodness someone on here knows what I am saying.

You’re welcome Arto1s and reading an echo chamber wouldn’t be very interesting to read.

Actually we do know what you are saying because we're not stupid. We just disagree. If you're watching a lot of Fox you will 'know' that London is a cess pit of violence and stabbings, but the reality is very different.

Nobody has said they watch Fox, let alone ‘a lot of it’ so why continue stirring the pot about this?
We can just disagree IOMGran
London does have much violence and stabbings doesn’t it?

I don't need anyone's approval or disapproval for my news sources, how funny.

This analysis was written by a US historian, Heather Cox Richardson. She has been doing a daily analysis for ages now, and always backs up everything with sources. I think it cuts through to the facts rather than the spin.

November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer and Socialist candidate for president at the turn of the last century.
“The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’”
The 34-year-old mayor-elect’s speech went on to deliver something that was more than a victory speech. It marked a new era much like the one that had given rise to Debs himself. After more than forty years in which ordinary Americans had seen the political system being stacked against them and, over time, forgotten they had agency to change it, they had woken up.
Mamdani began by lifting up New York City’s working people, noting that “[f]or as long as we can remember,” they “have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands…. And yet,” he said, “over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater.”
“Tonight,” he said, “against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands.” New York, he said, had delivered “[a] mandate for change. ​​A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford. And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.”
Mamdani thanked “the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past.” And that was the heart of his message: that democracy belongs to ordinary people. “We will fight for you,” he said, “because we are you.”
He thanked “Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.” He assured “every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point” that “this city is your city, and this democracy is yours too.”
Mamdani celebrated the hard work of democracy in his win. It was a victory not just for all those who make up New York City, he said, but also for “the more than 100,000 volunteers who built this campaign into an unstoppable force…. With every door knocked, every petition signature earned, and every hard-earned conversation, you eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics.”
With that base of Americans engaged in the work of democracy, Mamdani welcomed a new era. “There are many who thought this day would never come, who feared that we would be condemned only to a future of less, with every election consigning us simply to more of the same,” he said. “And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn.”
But in New York City last night, he said, “we have answered those fears…. Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy.”
“And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”
Mamdani promised a government that would answer to the demands of the people. It would address the city’s cost-of-living crisis, invest in education, improve infrastructure, and cut bureaucratic waste. It would, he said, work with police officers to reduce crime while also defending community safety and demanding excellence in government.
Mamdani pushed back not just against the smears thrown his way during the campaign, but also against the deliberate division of the country that has been a staple of Republican rhetoric since 1972, when President Richard Nixon’s vice president Spiro Agnew embraced his role as the key purveyor of “positive polarization.” In its place, he called for community and solidarity.
“In this new age we make for ourselves,” Mamdani said, “we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another…. Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall. Your struggle is ours, too.”
Mamdani, who is Muslim (with a Hindu mother), promised to “build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Where the more than 1 million Muslims know that they belong—not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.”
He called for a government of both competence and compassion. “For years,” he said, “those in City Hall have only helped those who can help them. But on January first, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone.”
Mamdani took on the problem of disinformation in modern politics, noting that “many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them.” He laid that disinformation at the feet of the very wealthy in their quest to divide working Americans to make sure they retain power. “[A]s so often occurred,” he said, “the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long-broken system.”
Mamdani urged New Yorkers to embrace a “brave new course, rather than fleeing from it.” If they do, he said, “we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.”
Mamdani identified the popular momentum to defeat President Donald J. Trump, but made the point that the goal is not simply to stop Trump, but also to stop the next Trump who comes along. While his prescription focused on the avenues of resistance open to New York City government, he emphasized that for the president “to get to any of us,” he will have to “get through all of us.”
The mayor-elect called for New Yorkers to “leave mediocrity in our past,” and for Democrats to “dare to be great.” When Mamdani said, “New York, this power, it’s yours,” and told New Yorkers, “[t]his city belongs to you,” millions of Americans heard a reminder that they, too, are powerful and that the government of the United States of America belongs to them.
Mamdani won election yesterday backed by just over half the city’s voters, in an election characterized by extraordinarily high turnout. Andy Newman of the New York Times noted yesterday that in the last four New York City mayoral elections, fewer than a third of registered voters turned out. Yesterday, more than 2 million voters voted, the highest turnout for a mayoral election since 1969.
And that turnout is a key part of the story of yesterday’s Democratic wave. As Mamdani said, American voters appear, once again, to be aware of their agency in our democracy.