The competitive mayoral race reveals Zohran Mamdani's challenges against Andrew Cuomo and support from the Democratic Socialists of America.
When I first heard that Zohran Mamdani was running for mayor last fall, I admit I was skeptical. the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has an impressive track record of winning legisla-tive races, but the mayor's race was a challenge an order of magnitude larger. And Andrew Cuomo's advantages—in name recognition, in funding, in elite support—seemed almost impossible to overcome.
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