from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, June 25th.

And we're going to dive right in with the man of the hours, Iran Mumdani, officially, but soon to be

officially, the Democratic nominee for

Mayor of New York. If you haven't heard yet, listeners, Mamdani way overperformed his pre-election

poll numbers, and Andrew Cuomo has conceded. So after all our coverage of the race on this show,

with all nine candidates, he has earned a victory lap here this morning.

Assemblyman Mamdani, we so appreciate giving us a few minutes after being up late last night

for the returns.

Congratulations.

And can you believe it yet yourself?

Thank you so much for having you, Brian.

It's a real pleasure to be here.

It feels incredible, but more than

anything, I feel grateful to every single person who knocked doors, who made calls, who

believed in this campaign from the very beginning when we were polling at just 1% and every single

New Yorker who came out to vote for a city that they could actually

afford.

And congratulations, not just on winning the primary, but on inspiring many new voters to participate

in the electoral process.

The early voting stats we have show nearly a quarter of those people had not voted in a primary since at least 2012,

probably then most were new.

How does that part of the victory make you feel?

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