New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday that his decisive victory in the election shows the way to defeat US President Donald Trump. who is a sharp critic of his democratic policies. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency and the Sky News television.
- Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York.
- Mamdani is the first Muslim mayor of the city and the youngest in a century.
- He highlighted New York as a symbol of hope and change in the US.
- Democratic candidates dominated the election, defeating Republicans in many cities.
- Donald Trump has denied responsibility for the results of the Democrats’ election.
“If anyone can show the nation that Donald Trump betrayed how to beat him, it’s the city that brought him to the top.” Mamdani, 34, said in his victory speech. “In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light,” announced the newly elected mayor.
“We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could become possible.” added Mamdani. Mamdani was born in Uganda to a family of Indian descent and has lived in the US since the age of seven. According to Sky News becomes the first Muslim, the first person of South Asian descent and the youngest person in the last century to be elected mayor of New York.
Mamdani won the election despite sharp attacks on him by business elites, conservative media commentators and Trump himself. AFP reports. He will be sworn in on New Year’s Day.
On Tuesday, democratic candidates also won in several other American cities, such as Pittsburgh, Detroit and Buffalo. Americans also elected the governors of the states of Virginia and New Jersey, where in both cases the Democratic candidates also won.
Trump refused to take any responsibility for the results of Tuesday’s election. In a post on the social network Truth Social, he cited anonymous “pollsters” who suggested that the defeat of the Republicans was due to the so-called shutdown and the fact that his name was not on the ballots.
