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What A Day

Zohran Mamdani's Fight For NYC feat. Brad Lander

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The New York City Board of Elections on Tuesday confirmed Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city's Democratic primary for mayor. And not by a thin margin – the results show Mamdani won by 12 points after the ranked choice vote count. The decisive victory puts Mamdani in pole position to win November’s general election and become the city’s next mayor, though Cuomo and current Mayor Eric Adams are set to run as independents. New York City Comptroller Brand Lander, who also ran for mayor (he and Mamdani cross-endorsed each other), talks about what Mamdani’s win says about the state of national Democratic politics. And in headlines: House Republicans bickered over the latest version of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, a New York jury convicted disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution but acquitted him of more serious charges, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled a nearly 200-year-old law does not ban abortion in the state.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, July 3rd, I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that is wishing

0:06.6

you a happy 4th of July and hopes you get to do something that is actually fun and enjoyable

0:11.2

and isn't thinking about how our country is currently run by racist alligator enthusiasts.

0:31.7

On today's show, Sean Combs, aka Diddy, was denied bail and his awaiting sentencing after a jury found him guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

0:38.3

And Wisconsin's highest court ruled that a nearly 200-year-old law does not ban abortion in the state.

0:43.1

But let's talk about New York City, America's biggest city and a place that's finally getting trash bin so you can stop seeing and smelling mountains of garbage bags in the streets.

0:48.1

The city's Board of Elections on Tuesday confirmed that Zoramam Dani, a 33-year-old New York

0:53.4

State Assembly member, beat former New York

0:55.8

governor and alleged sex past Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary to be the next mayor of the

1:01.2

Big Apple. And not by a thin margin. The results show that Mamdani won by 12 points. Now, there's a lot

1:07.8

I can't tell you about what Mamdani's win means, but it puts them in the driver's seat for the mayoral race, given how Democrats dominate New York, and his main opposition will likely be the current mayor, alleged corruption enthusiast Eric Adams, especially since Adams has the backing of the city's favorite former resident, President Donald Trump. Here he is on Tuesday.

1:27.6

Or you have a good independent running, Mayor Adams, who's a very good person. They helped

1:32.8

him out a little bit. He had a problem. Of course, Trump had way more to say on the subject of

1:36.7

Mom Donnie, both on his personal yelling platform, True Social, and during a press conference

1:41.6

with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday. A lot of people saying he's here illegally.

1:46.8

You know, we're going to look at everything.

1:48.8

A lot of people are not saying that because it's not true.

1:52.5

Racists are saying that because they are racist.

1:55.3

They are also complaining about Mamdani eating rice with his hands

1:58.0

or having a wife who is either too Muslim or not Muslim enough.

2:01.2

Actually, a lot of these so-called criticism Mamdani has gotten from the right seems to be that

2:05.7

he is both going to personally launch a caliphate from Central Park and that he's going to do

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