Overview

• Zohran Mamdani won the Manhattan Democratic Party’s executive committee endorsement by a 49–5 vote to become the official Democratic nominee for New York City mayor.
• Former governor Andrew Cuomo and current mayor Eric Adams have both launched independent campaigns after losing or skipping the Democratic primary.
• Early general election polls give Mamdani a 41 percent lead over Cuomo’s 27 percent and Adams’s 16 percent.
• President Trump has repeatedly labeled Mamdani a communist and warned he will face “big problems” if he does not “behave.”
• Observers have renewed scrutiny of Mamdani’s past social media defenses of Anwar al-Awlaki, intensifying national debate over his democratic socialist agenda.