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Monash expert: Zohran Mamdani wins New York Mayoral election

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Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has won the New York Mayoral election race, becoming the first Muslim and South Asian candidate to govern the largest city in the United States of America. Dr Benjamin Moffitt can comment on Mamdani’s anti-establishment credentials, democratic socialism and why the New York race has attracted such significant national/global attention.

Available to comment:

Dr Benjamin Moffitt, Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Arts

Contact: +61 477 204 086 or [email protected] 

Read more of Dr Moffitt’s commentary at Monash Lens

 

“Mamdani’s victory will have significant repercussions beyond New York City, and perhaps even beyond the US. Australian parties on the left should be taking note: this is how you run a campaign that relentlessly targets the issue of housing unaffordability and insecurity.

 

“Mamdani’s win also represents a potential new path forward for the Democratic Party at a time they seem rudderless in the face of Trump: democratic socialism. Expect Mamdani to take the baton from Bernie Sanders as the face of the Democratic left – and for Trump to turn his attacks straight towards him.”

 

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