Socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York. CBS News projected that the 34-year-old won 50.4% of the vote, compared to independent Andrew Cuomo’s 41.6% and Republican Curtis Sliwa’s 7%. More than 2 million people voted…
Mamdani – who describes himself as “Trump’s worst nightmare” – declared in his victory speech:
“This is not only how we stop Trump. It’s how we stop the next one. So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: ‘Turn the volume up’.”
President Trump took to Truth Social to say:
“TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters.”
A reminder of what Mamdani has proposed:
Trump has threatened to withhold all but the most limited federal funding to the city if Mamdani wins. Good luck New Yorkers…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”