Last year, Zohran Mamdani was a 33-year-old state assemblymember running second in his own party’s primary to disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo, who entered the 2025 New York City mayoral race as the frontrunner—backed by both the Democratic establishment and endorsed by President Donald Trump. Fourteen months ago, polling firms were running ranked-choice simulations showing Cuomo defeating Mamdani 56 to 44 in the Democratic primary.
Now, that assemblyman is the most powerful Democrat in America’s most powerful city, who, on Tuesday, went three for three in congressional endorsements.
