What Zohran Mamdani’s primary win in New York means for Democrats nationwide
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In a stunning upset, 33-year-old Zoran Mamdani won last night's Democratic primary for New York City mayor. |
| 0:07.8 | Final results won't be official for several days, but his win has sent shockwaves through the Democratic Party. |
| 0:13.7 | Mamdani spoke to supporters late last night. |
| 0:15.9 | If this campaign has demonstrated anything to the world. |
| 0:21.6 | It is that our dreams can become reality. |
| 0:28.6 | Dreaming demands hope. |
| 0:31.6 | And when I think of hope, I think of the unprecedented coalition |
| 0:36.6 | of New Yorkers that we have built. |
| 0:40.0 | For this, this is not my victory. |
| 0:44.4 | This is ours. |
| 0:47.7 | For more on his win and what comes next, we're joined by Aeryl Lewis. |
| 0:52.1 | He's political anchor for Spectrum News, New York One, |
| 0:54.7 | and host of the Inside City Hall program. Errol, welcome back to the News Hour. Good to see you. |
| 1:00.0 | Great to be with you. So this is being called a New York City miracle, a political earthquake. |
| 1:05.8 | Mamdani went from being a little-known state assembly man to taking down the former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo. |
| 1:12.2 | How did he do it? Well, that's what we're all trying to figure it out today. But the short answer |
| 1:18.2 | is that he represented a new generation. He's less than half the age of Andrew Cuomo. He's a relative |
| 1:25.5 | newcomer who has a lot of newcomers problems, meaning it's hard |
| 1:28.9 | to pay the rent in New York City. It's hard to get the cost of living under control. And he proposed |
| 1:34.0 | some very basic, very straightforward solutions that a lot of people really like. |
| 1:39.8 | He is a self-described Democratic Socialists, we should say. And some of the specific promises |
| 1:43.8 | that he ran on include a rent-free, free city buses, |
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