It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. First of all, it's another Supreme Court

Decision Day, and they released them just after 10 o'clock, and, you know, the term is about to end,

so we'll see if birthright citizenship or any of the other major rulings do come down today,

we have law professor Kay Shaw standing by for later in the program, so we'll see what emerges

there. But we'll start today with a New York City history lens on the nomination of Zoran

Mamdani for mayor.

Even if our 100 Years of a Hundred Thing series is ending, we hit number 99 yesterday, we'll

still be doing history on this show as it informs the president.

It's one of the things we do.

And journalist Will Brederman had a really interesting New York politics history

piece on Politico the other day. Ironically, it was titled, If Cuomo wins, it was all but inevitable.

Here's why. But actually, the New York story he tells in the article also applies to the nomination of

Mamdani. Here's a central reason why. A lot is being made

today of the increase in turnout inspired by Mamdani in this Democratic primary, but that so-called

impressive turnout is only about 30% of registered Democrats. So consider this from Will Breederman's article. It says the percentage of registered Democrats. So consider this from Will Breederman's article. It says the percentage

of registered voters in New York who cast ballots declined from 93% in 1953 to 57% in 1993 and to just 24% in 2013, quoting from the article.

And I looked it up, it was just 23% in the 2021 general election.

How did the city go from 90% turnout to barely 20% turnout? Let's discuss. Will Brederman, thanks for joining us,

and we'll put this in the context of the nomination of Mamdani. Welcome to WNYC. Thank you so much for

having me. I really appreciate being here to talk about this. You know, I guess I would say off

the bat is even if you were, we're going to

look like we're going to break a million votes in this election we've just had. But that'll

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