Zohran Mamdani, new mayor of New York on the day that the US tests Donald Trump at the polls

Democrat Zohran Mamdani won the New York Mayoral elections this Tuesday with 50% of the votes, according to AP, CNN and NBC News projections. At 34 years old, he will be the youngest city councilor since 1892 and also the first Muslim, after beating the independent Andrew Cuomo and the Republican Curtis Sliwa, with 69% of the vote. His victory is framed in an election day with record participation – more than two million voters in the city – and which is interpreted as a political thermometer for Donald Trump, nine months after starting his second term. The president had expressly asked to vote for Cuomo to avoid the triumph of the socialist Mamdani, whom he described as a “communist.” In addition to the contest in New York, Americans voted this Tuesday in other states in local elections and key referendums, such as Proposition 50 in California, promoted by Governor Gavin Newsom, or the election for governor of Virginia, where Democrat Abigail Spanberger leads the polls.