Socialist defeats former governor in NYC mayoral primary
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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Andrew Cuomo conceded in yesterday’s New York City mayoral Democratic primary to Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani. A Democratic strategist called the former governor’s loss the “biggest upset in modern New York City history.” Mamdani made headlines with his strong support for Palestinians and criticism of Israel. With five likely candidates, including incumbent mayor Eric Adams running as an independent, the general election in November could be “the strangest local election in at least half a century.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June the 25th, 2025, and this is the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome. I'm narrator, Chris Elkins, voicing today's daily article written by friend, philosopher, and our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:19.6 | Let's take a break from Conflict in the Middle East to have a conversation about events closer to home. |
| 0:25.8 | Andrew Cuomo conceded in yesterday's New York City mayoral Democratic primary to Muslim socialist Zoran Mamdani. |
| 0:34.3 | A democratic strategist called the former governor's loss the biggest upset in modern New York |
| 0:40.5 | City history. Mamdani made headlines with his strong support for Palestinians and criticism of Israel. |
| 0:47.6 | With five likely candidates, including incumbent mayor Eric Adams, running as an independent, |
| 0:53.5 | the general election in November could be, |
| 0:55.7 | quote, the strangest local election in at least half a century. In America, anyone meeting legal |
| 1:01.7 | qualifications can run for political office. The same is true in Israel, where any Israeli citizen |
| 1:08.0 | over the age of 21, with a few exceptions, can form a political party and run for |
| 1:14.0 | the Knesset, their parliament. In their latest elections, 39 parties participated and 15 won |
| 1:21.3 | enough votes for their candidate to be seated. Contrast these open elections with politics in Iran. |
| 1:37.3 | Their supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Qamani recently named three senior clerics as candidates to replace him if he were to die in the conflict with Israel. In that event, he instructed his nation's assembly of experts the clerical body responsible for appointing the Supreme Leader, to choose his successor from these names. |
| 1:48.5 | The country regularly holds elections for president and other offices, but they have far less power than the |
| 1:54.9 | Supreme Leader, who rules essentially as an autocratic dictator. In addition, their elections are especially influenced by |
| 2:02.8 | the Guardian Council, an unelected body that disqualifies any candidate it deems insufficiently |
| 2:09.6 | loyal to the clerical establishment. The Assembly of Experts, empowered to appoint the Supreme |
| 2:15.0 | Leader, is chosen through elections, but its candidates must be |
| 2:19.0 | approved by the Guardian Council, and the Guardian Council's members are appointed directly or indirectly |
| 2:25.6 | by the Supreme Leader. Iran's Theocracy is built on the belief that the nation should be governed |
| 2:31.7 | by Sharia law. Ayatollah Ruhala Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, |
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