Zohran Mamdani Seals HISTORIC Win In New York City
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Zohran Mamdani Elected NYC Mayor
Plus: Bhaskar Sunkara on the work that Mamdani can do now, and, would Labour have given Mamdani the chance to run for London Mayor?
With: Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar, and Bhaskar Sunkara
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Navaralive. I'm Michael Walker. Tonight's show is all about one man. Can you guess who? Zeran, Mamdani. I'm joined by Ash Sarkar Ash. I suppose you didn't have to stay. Did you stay up to watch the results? I personally didn't. I never do. |
| 0:34.4 | I didn't stay up because it looked pretty nailed on. And I will say this, because we're |
| 0:38.7 | going to get into some really serious analysis. And there's going to be a lot of discussion, |
| 0:44.0 | not just from us, but from all sorts of other media outlets about how historic this win is. |
| 0:48.4 | I mean, the first Democratic socialist mayor of New York, the first Muslim American mayor of |
| 0:53.1 | New York, the first South Asian mayor of New York, the first South Asian |
| 0:54.4 | mayor of New York, the first person born in Africa to be mayor of New York. But the one |
| 0:58.0 | thing no one's talking about is that as far as I can make out, this is the first time a cutie |
| 1:04.2 | patuti has been elected mayor of New York. And that is truly glass ceiling shattering. |
| 1:13.9 | I will be speaking later, or I've've gotten into later with Baskar Sankara, New York Democratic Socialist Royalty, I think we can say on his take |
| 1:21.2 | on the meaning of Mamdani. As ever, if you'd like to support our work, you can sign up atavarammedia.com |
| 1:26.4 | forward slash support. |
| 1:32.8 | From polling below 1% at the start of the years, Iran-Mamdani has faced down the billionaire class to become the Democratic Socialist Mayor of New York. |
| 1:38.2 | Thank you, my friends. |
| 2:01.6 | The Sun... The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. |
| 2:16.6 | For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. |
| 2:18.3 | Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, |
| 2:23.3 | palms callous from delivery bike handlebars, |
| 2:27.3 | knuckles scarred with kitchen burns. |
| 2:31.3 | These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. |
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