Call it the Mamdani tsunami.
Zohran Mamdani’s earthshaking political rise continues to pick up speed as the mayoral candidate racks up endorsements from New York City’s most powerful labor unions and woos party bosses in Washington. This raises all sorts of speculation around whether the democratic socialist has already drowned out the competition.
Asked whether Mr. Mamdani could be stopped, Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist who has been highly critical of Mr. Mamdani, joked that he “was just talking to President Harris about that.”
“Vice President Harris was supposed to win that race,” he said of the 2024 presidential election. “It’s a long time till November. Anything can happen.”
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Eric Adams and their allies are scrambling to slow the Mamdani momentum and sharpen their focus on the state assemblyman’s inexperience and how his socialist-inspired vision would be catastrophic for New Yorkers.
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