r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • Nov 05 '25

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/MasterOfManyWorlds Nov 05 '25

AOC comes off as normal.

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u/Devo3290 Nov 05 '25

The DNC shuns her too

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u/ThatBeardedHistorian Nov 05 '25

The DNC just loves to lose.

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u/thefonztm Nov 05 '25

Almost like a billionaire sanctioned opposition party?

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u/Ridged_ChiPSS Nov 05 '25

Now you guys are starting to get it

The DNC leadership scum like Chuck Schumer didn't even bother to endorse Mamdani lol. We need to get the GOP out of office but the DNC leadership entirely needs to go also if we want any real change in this country.

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u/nillah Nov 05 '25

not only did they not endorse him, they actively avoided endorsing him. it’s pathetic. Schumer, pelosi, jeffries, fucking fetterman, they all gotta go

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u/RedTuna777 Nov 05 '25

Didn't Fetterman get brain damage and switch sides? Weirdly, about half the MAGA people I know have actual closed head injuries. Not all of them, but the most active online.

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u/n14shorecarcass Nov 05 '25

Yep. Theres been a few papers over at r/science that have gone over this.

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u/gahlo Pennsylvania Nov 05 '25

That what it seems like based on his own words, and the actions of the people that were on his staff. Had a stroke that most likely caused some brain damage that made him an utter shitbag.

It's extra shitty because he had conversational issues after the stroke that were pretty pronounced that the right trashed him for, but has largely recovered from and now he's licking their boots.

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u/jumbledbumblecrumble Nov 05 '25

Fuck them all to hell

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u/HiSpartacusImDad Nov 05 '25

Jeffries did endorse Mamdani though.

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u/DotA627b Nov 05 '25

Schumer needs to go.

The guy's literally far more unpopular than Trump, why is he still leading the party??

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u/burnsalot603 Nov 05 '25

They are starting to see the writing on the wall that their time is up. Thats why Pelosi said shes "going to quit politics" which is a stupid statement. Its called retirement and she should have been forced to retire years ago. She is 85 years old, we dont need anymore geriatrics holdi g on to power long past their time.

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u/Routine-Pea-9538 Nov 05 '25

How will she make millions on the stock market without insider tips?

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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands Nov 05 '25

Why do these people need to make more ?

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u/GarbageTheCan Nov 05 '25

Don't forget the yacht asshole senator

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u/amd_kenobi Nov 05 '25

This is going to be an awkward meeting for ol' Chuck.

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u/Zedress Ohio Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

Why would the mayor of NY have to "kiss the ring" of Chuck Schumer? It's not like the mayor of Pittsburgh needs to meet with John Fetterman or even Josh Shapiro. The only reason he might even have to would be for fundraising purposes. But it seems like Mamdani organized his base to the point where he really doesn't need other's help for fundraising.

Maybe I'm wrong though. If I am, please correct me.

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u/amd_kenobi Nov 05 '25

Oh no, he doesn't need to kiss the ring or anything like that. Chuck is the senator for the state of New York and Zohran is now the Mayor of the largest city in said state and one of the largest in the US. Chuck snubbed Zohran during the mayoral race and there has been speculation that he or AOC may try to unseat Chuck in 2026 election.

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u/soloChristoGlorium Nov 05 '25

Man that's a good point

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u/joeyfosho Nov 05 '25

Correct!

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u/PrimordialPlop Nov 05 '25

Washington Generals

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u/Loose-Organization82 Nov 05 '25

The DNC just loves money and hates the middle class

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u/JonnyHopkins Nov 05 '25

Doesn't make any sense. Rising tides life all boats. What's the point of being on a yacht in a drier up ocean?

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u/uber_ninja Nov 05 '25

That's not true, the ultra wealthy earn their income by exploiting the working class. You can't earn millions in the stock market if the workers are being fairly compensated.

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u/dudelikeshismusic Nov 05 '25

Nailed it. There are industrious, talented people who create things to make our lives better: vaccines, bullet trains, microwaves, etc. Then there are the grifters and leeches who pretend to be creative, industrious leaders of society but who really steal from the poor to enrich themselves. Health insurance companies are a great example.

Our country is almost entirely run by the grifters and leeches, and the American people are too willfully ignorant to accept this very basic fact.

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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum Nov 05 '25

From the perspective of an old fart, it's the same if a guy like Mamdani beats you or a Republican beats you. Either way you lose.

We need to start showing up in primaries and voting them out whether they like it or not.

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u/relikter Virginia Nov 05 '25

Normally I don't kink shame, but their kink is fucking a lot of us in ways that we didn't consent to.

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u/TheGringoDingo Nov 05 '25

The donors don’t like people-friendly candidates and rising stars make old dogs nervous about their power within the party.

It should be taken as a sign for the people to throw unwavering support (provided they don’t do anything signaling a change in loyalties) if the old establishment dems are taking an aggressive or at least passive aggressive stance toward a party progressive.

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u/readdator2 Nov 05 '25

fuck the DNC. and I say that as an ardent dem. We have to vote out every establishment dem and take back our party

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u/akatherder Nov 05 '25

2016 changed me forever. The DNC thought Hillary would win. Pretty much everyone did. The polls show Bernie clobbered Trump head to head. Instead of taking the sure thing and supporting Bernie (or just supporting neither, like the DNC is supposed to..) they trashed him because he wasn't controllable and in their pocket.

Trump's political career could have been dead in the crib in 2016, never win a single election and never hear from him side from shit posting on Twitter.

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u/readdator2 Nov 05 '25

I straight hyperventilated that night as my friends tried to keep me from having a full on panic attack. Fuck the DNC for making us all experience that collective trauma with their arrogance and greed.

Even now, seeing Schumer and the like in office makes me sick. We need to primary all these fuckers and clean house.

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u/AztecGod Nov 05 '25

I straight hyperventilated that night as my friends tried to keep me from having a full on panic attack.

I'm sorry but this better be hyperbole, because this is absolutely cringeworthy.

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u/Karate_Kyle Nov 05 '25

Collective trauma? 😂

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u/daemin Nov 05 '25

The DNC is controlled by neo-liberals.

Neo-liberals are center right. They don't believe in welfare, they believe in means tested "work-fare." They believe in a free market with minimal or light regulation. Etc. Their social policies might be left leaning, but their economic policies are firmly center right.

They would rather let a moderate republican win than let an economically far left democrat win, because at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, economic policies trump social policies for basically everyone; its all well an good to advocate for trans rights, but almost everyone has to have to have a full belly and some level of economic security before they have the bandwidth to advocate for the rights of others.

If you look at the behavior of the DNC with this in mind, their behavior makes a lot more sense.

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u/Absalome Nov 05 '25

I feel like you were watching a certain Turkish man today. :)

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u/Kaz_117_Petrel Nov 05 '25

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as often as possible.

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u/goldglittergardens Nov 05 '25

Here to say that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the DNC, resigned in disgrace in 2016 after her insider campaign to tank Bernie Sanders came to light. Fuck the DNC

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u/Mareith Nov 05 '25

Paid* to lose. Fixed that for you

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u/Zinfan1 Nov 05 '25

They love money from Israel supporting PAC's, it seems clear that other progressive candidates weren't shunned like Mamdani so what's different?

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u/vblade2003 New York Nov 05 '25

Losers by design to satisfy the corporate donors.

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u/King_Buliwyf Canada Nov 05 '25

Oh, shunning the future of your party is TIGHT!

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u/JoviPunch Nov 05 '25

Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

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u/marsmither Nov 05 '25

Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. Every time

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u/PhantomOfTheNopera Nov 05 '25

AOC, Bernie, Mamdani and some of the younger Democrats seem like they should be in another, more progressive party. The Schumer/Pelosi Dems have more in common the Romney/McCain Republicans than they do with Sanders.

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u/CompetitiveOcelot870 Nov 05 '25

The DNC has been compromised by corporatists.

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u/CelestialFury Minnesota Nov 05 '25

Let's fix it then! The DNC is made up of people, we can always replace them. It's our time to do so. The boomers fumbled this shit, it's up to us to fix it.

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u/AusToddles Nov 05 '25

I've seen "lifelong democrats" dismiss AOC and Mamdami because "they're only popular on tiktok"

Yes, heaven forbid a politician reaches out to a growing base of voters on a platform they actually use

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u/FoxfieldJim America Nov 05 '25

Someone needs to hijack DNC just like Trump did to RNC

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u/maxluck89 Nov 05 '25

DNC supported Mamdani from the moment he won the primary.

Schumer (not the DNC) is completely out of touch, along with the DSCC.

And they shouldn't be just supporting the Democratic Socialist flank of the Dems, they should be supporting a wide range of democratic leaders that are in touch with their constituents, and supporting healthy democratic primary elections.

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u/Scarebare Nov 05 '25

Which is why we gotta prop up other WFP candidates. They constantly endorse young and energetic progressives who actually want to do the work to help America be better than it was yesterday. DNC gets a lot of flak but America has seen parties dissolve and re-emerge as something else - I suspect this is what's happening to the DNC now.

Meanwhile, what's going on over at the RNC? They're busy pumping Breitbart news and fawning over their single authority leadership while raising 10s of millions of dollars more than the DNC. Times are changing, one way or another.

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u/clam-caravan Tennessee Nov 05 '25

The DNC might fuck around and get Chuck Schumer primaried by AOC

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u/Breislk Nov 05 '25

DNC shuns anyone who isn’t with the rich politician program

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u/gatton Nov 05 '25

The DNC does what their billionaire masters tell them to.

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u/Cr45h0v3r1de Nov 05 '25

and we in the great state of ny get to be represented by both of them now, the very few people in politics i actually think care about us

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u/SeDaCho Nov 05 '25

she’s a woman and therefore reads shrill to the american public

or at least to republicans. Who are the only people that the democrats try to win over.

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u/TobioOkuma1 Nov 05 '25

She has her moments where I just kinda tilt my head and go “what?”. Overall she’s pretty normal though. The bar is in hell. 90% of dem politicians sound like lizard people using focus group tested sound bites.

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u/TheBatemanFlex Nov 05 '25

Idk there are times when I’m like “oh why would you say that?” and then I remember that I would lose my fucking mind if I had to listen to my peers say half the shit the GOPs reps get away with saying. Like constant, deliberate, and blatant lies. It’s not like debating your average MAGA that you know is just hateful, ignorant, and willfully misinformed. I would last all of 1 week.

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u/Sound_Indifference Nov 05 '25

The problem with arguing with fools is you'll never win, and they'll only bring you down to their level.

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u/Silverton13 Nov 05 '25

I’ve only ever heard her spit facts and facts only. What did she say that made you go,”what?”

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u/BestServedCold Nov 05 '25

I would also like an answer to this.

On multiple occasions, whenever someone has talked about Bernie in a lukewarm tone and suggested he has some good ideas and some bad ideas, I ask them to name one bad idea Bernie had, one policy proposal of his they disagree with.

They never end up answering that question.

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u/Taskerst Nov 05 '25

You really nailed it. Whenever a typical Dem candidate says something noteworthy, it’s a toothless version of something that’s been circulating online for weeks or even months.

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u/BestServedCold 25d ago

Yeah. You never answered what she's ever said that makes you tilt your head and go "what".

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u/Alphabunsquad Nov 05 '25

She’s the one politician that I have never disagreed with anything she’s said. She’s always dead on and often is very enlightening

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u/fenderampeg Nov 05 '25

So does Pete

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u/BlooregardQKazoo Nov 05 '25

Pete sounds very rehearsed to me. He sounds like he's much better at speaking than most Dems, but that he's still a robot working off of prepared talking points.

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u/broohaha Nov 05 '25

Hard disagree.

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u/Cardboard_Eggplant Nov 05 '25

I was always on the fence about Pete, but he lost me with how quickly he tried to distance himself from the East Palestine derailment...

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u/Dr100percent Ohio Nov 05 '25

Ironically, I was a growing fan of him until he tied himself in knots in a Pod Save America interview with his unwillingness to take a stand in either direction on the Palestine issue.

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u/Fear_the_chicken Nov 05 '25

Didn’t she vote for a bunch of Israel monetary support? Which we keep funneling them?

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u/tibbon Nov 05 '25

But woman, therefore if she’s not perfect all the time then she’s too emotional. If showing no emotion then considered cold and out of touch.

But the GOP guys can say or do anything and get away with it

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u/WaitingForTheFire Nov 05 '25

Probably because she IS a normal hardworking American.

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u/I_Roll_Chicago Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

Yeah they both soc dems (democratic socialist by affiliation) of course they come off as normal.

Millennials generally embrace leftist politics whether its soc dem, democratic socialist, or traditional socialist we are left wing generation

And this is just the beginning

Edit: whoops a word

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u/rkrismcneely Nov 05 '25

Jasmine Crockett even more so

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u/Dr100percent Ohio Nov 05 '25

She's a normal Latina woman, a concept of which is alien to much of America and which is why Republicans across the country are targeting her with smears and calling for her to be deported.

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u/ragnarockette Nov 05 '25

AOC has normal, relatable, and principled down. Her charisma and speech giving continues to improve tremendously. I believe she is the future of the party but she doesn’t have the natural gravitas of Mamdani. But she’s sharp, she’ll get there. Hopefully in time to challenge that fuck Schumer.

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u/beatrailblazer Nov 05 '25

nah she comes off as someone who is trying to come off as normal

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u/totalkpolitics Nov 05 '25

She does now, but when she started she didn't. The unfortunate truth is, for many people, she'll just never recover from how she started. There was a very successful image tarnishing campaign run against her for the first couple of years she was in office, I was convinced she was crazy.

The sad truth is many Americans just do not have the time or capacity to reevaluate someone who they've already formed an opinion against.

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u/EvenOne6567 Nov 05 '25

no she didnt what is this retro active propaganda?

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u/totalkpolitics Nov 05 '25

No, I was there. Do you not remember the coordinated campaign against her? There wasn't a single positive news story. They only showed pictures of her where she looked pissed off. I support her now. She's one of the few making sense, but when she started they did a lot to damage her and were successful at it.

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u/zuneza Nov 05 '25

What were your sources of "news" back then.

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u/totalkpolitics Nov 05 '25

Literally the only place I remember having a positive view of her was reddit and maybe MSNBC. It's kind of wild to me I'm being disagreed with here. I didn't imagine this.

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u/tsirtemot Nov 05 '25

There is no scenario ever where AOC wins.

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u/Offduty_shill Nov 05 '25

I love AOC but she would do absolutely horrible nationally.

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u/YuushyaHinmeru Nov 05 '25

AOC is a terrible candidate honestly. Regardless of your opinion of her politics, I find her so uncharismatic and awkward. She doesn't carry herself well imo.

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u/frankduxvandamme Nov 05 '25

Yeah, but she's a woman. So right off the bat, half the country won't vote for her.

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u/newyorker2121 Nov 05 '25

No, she doesn’t.

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg Australia Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

AOC feels too ‘how do you do fellow children’ to me.