Overview
- He won just over 50% of the vote, defeating Andrew Cuomo by about 10 points as more than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots, the largest municipal turnout since 1969.
- The 34-year-old Kampala-born state lawmaker becomes the city’s first Muslim and first self-identified socialist mayor, as well as its youngest in more than a century.
- His campaign emphasized cost-of-living measures including free buses, a rent freeze, municipal supermarkets, and higher taxes on the wealthy.
- In his victory speech he told President Trump to “turn up the volume,” as Trump branded him a “communist antisemite” and threatened to cut federal funds.
- Israeli minister Amichai Chikli called him a “Hamas supporter” and urged Jews to leave New York, while attention turns to whether he can execute his agenda given limited executive experience and likely opposition.