Tuesday’s election results are sobering for Republicans, who relinquished three key Virginia statewide races to Democrats as well as the New Jersey Governor race and watched New York City embrace Democratic socialism with the ascension of radical leftist Zohran Mamdani as mayor.
In an unsettling if unsurprising turn of events for anyone who has glanced at polling over the past few months, self-identified socialist Zohran Mamdani, running as a Democrat, beat out independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa for New York City mayor.
Mamdani won just over half the vote (50.2 percent), while his opposition vote was split between Cuomo (41.6 percent) and Sliwa (7.1 percent). Mamdani’s win marks a forward lurch for socialiststyle policies in the city, including taxpayer- funded free
