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Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race The democratic socialist state Assemblymember from Queens is on track to be the Democratic nominee for mayor in a ranked-choice election.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/mayoral-election-first-round-results-cuomo-mamdani/

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is on track to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor, after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded to him Tuesday night following the first round of ranked-choice primary votes.

With 95% of precincts reporting two hours after polls closed at 9 p.m., 44% ranked Mamdani as their first choice while 36% chose Cuomo first and 11% had city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Mamdani emerged to raucus applause at his election party on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City, about 20 minutes after midnight.

Alvin Bragg, Manhattan prosecutor who took on Trump, wins Democratic primary in bid for second term Associated Press

https://www.aol.com/alvin-bragg-manhattan-prosecutor-took-011702400.html

 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who oversaw the historic hush-money case against President Donald Trump, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary as he seeks reelection.

Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins — a litigator, law professor and former Bronx assistant district attorney — to advance to November’s general election. About 70% of registered Manhattan voters are Democrats.

The first-term incumbent will face Republican Maud Maron, who was a public defender for decades and previously ran for Congress and NYC’s City Council as a Democrat.

Pro-Hamas Group Invests $100K in Muslim Mayoral Candidate Jhad in the City. Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/pro-hamas-group-invests-100k-in-muslim-mayoral-candidate/

Forget the Ground Zero mosque, New York City may end up with a ‘Ground Zero’ mayor, a Muslim socialist who hates America and Israel.

And you’ll never guess who’s backing him.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the anti-Israel group whose leader said he was “happy” about Oct. 7, is quietly funding socialist Zohran Mamdani’s bid for New York City mayor.

The Unity & Justice Fund, which CAIR formed last year to expand its political influence, has contributed $100,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, the largest PAC supporting Mamdani, according to campaign records. The money was split between a $25,000 gift on May 30 and a $75,000 donation on June 16.

Unity and Justice, by the way, is a fairly typical Muslim Brotherhood name. The Egyptian Brotherhood Party was the Freedom and Justice Party. It’s the Justice and Development Party in Morocco and the Justice and Construction Party in Libya.

The common theme here is ‘Justice’ which within the Islamic framework means the supremacy of Islamic law.

And CAIR has Muslim Brotherhood roots.

The brand outside may be “lower costs” but the brand inside is ‘justice’ or Sharia law.

David Christopher Kaufman Andrew Cuomo Is Betting on Jewish Voters. But Do They Want Him as the Next Mayor? The former New York governor has said that anti-Semitism is his campaign’s most important issue.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-city-mayor-race-andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-eric-adams-jewish-voters

Even by the madcap standards of New York City mayoral races, the 2025 campaign for City Hall looks like a doozy. The election’s most unanticipated elements are the surprise surges of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo—who survived short-lived political exile to become the race’s frontrunner—and his chief rival, Queens socialist and state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

One of Cuomo’s big bets is on Jewish voters. Anti-Semitism, Cuomo declared in early April, is his campaign’s “most important issue . . . the toughest issue facing the city of New York and the country.” He’s made fighting the city’s anti-Semitic outbreak central to his tough-guy persona—and used it to present himself as the ideal foil to Mamdani, an outspoken opponent of Zionism.

Though Mamdani is trying to connect with Jewish voters—including making an appearance at an annual breakfast event hosted by the Orthodox-heavy Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, in Brooklyn—he has a long road ahead of him in that effort. Mamdani has called Israel’s war with Hamas a “genocide,” and he protested with other Democratic Socialists in anti-Israel rallies just after Hamas’ October 7 massacre. He has taken part in a hunger strike—alongside celebrity activist Cynthia Nixon—in support of a Gaza ceasefire. And he introduced a bill that would make it harder to donate to charities that support West Bank settlements, part of his well-documented support of the odious Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

When it comes to the Jews, Mamdani also has questionable taste in allies. The mayoral hopeful recently called it “an honor” to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton, instigator of the infamous Crown Heights riots. And late last month he earned the endorsement of French Communist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has a long history of playing footsie with anti-Semites.

The delicious media meltdown over Reform’s success The media elites’ hissy fit over the local-election results is a hilarious rage of the entitled. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/05/the-delicious-media-meltdown-over-reforms-success/

The BBC’s mask didn’t so much slip on Friday as completely disintegrate. When Andrea Jenkyns, formerly of the Conservative Party, was elected the Reform UK mayor for Greater Lincolnshire, the Beeb put out one of the weirdest and most telling tweets of recent times. Jenkyns’s victory marks ‘a return to politics for the former Greggs worker and Miss UK finalist’, it said. Greggs worker? Heaven forfend! You could almost hear the sloshing of spilt macchiatos as the Oxbridge tits of the BBC’s social-media team clocked that someone who once served sausage rolls to the hard-up was now a mayor.

It was undiluted class snobbery. It was a sly jeer designed to get the Beeb’s more middle-class readership chortling with gleeful derision at the thought of such riff-raff-coded people now running the country. I was just a ‘Saturday kid’ at Greggs, when ‘I was 16’, protested Jenkyns. Others pointed out that she’s since been a Conservative MP and even a minister in both Boris Johnson’s and Liz Truss’s governments. Doesn’t matter, guys. Thirty-five years ago she heated up Cornish pasties for hungry working-class people and in the eyes of the BBC that makes her a strange and possibly unsuitable person for high politics.

The Beeb deleted the tweet. Maybe someone’s knuckles were rapped. But we could all see what was happening here. For the benefit of non-British readers, Greggs is a bakery that serves piping-hot pastries and sweet treats. It is especially popular on high streets in ‘left behind’ towns. And it has become shorthand among the chattering classes who can’t quite bring themselves to say ‘oik’ anymore. Make no mistake – when the Beeb said ‘former Greggs worker’, rather than ‘former minister’, it was implying that Jenkyns has rubbed shoulders with wrong’uns; with the little folk who not only voted for Brexit but, worse, also prefer a Greggs chicken bake to a salmon and spinach brioche roll from Benugo.

A Young Socialist Wants to Run NYC. Could He Win?By Olivia Reingold

https://www.thefp.com/p/socialist-mayor-new-york-zohran-mamdani?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Zohran Mamdani vows to spend billions subsidizing buses, housing, and grocery stores. He says he’ll arrest the Israeli PM if he ever steps foot in NYC. And he’s surging in the polls.

Unless you follow New York politics like a hawk, chances are you’ve never heard of Zohran Kwame Mamdani. The 33-year-old socialist is one of the youngest candidates to ever seek the mayorship of New York City. If he wins, he wants to turn the Big Apple into a Havana on the Hudson with free buses, government-run grocery stores, and no more rent hikes for millions.

“It is socialism that we are fighting for,” he told an online audience in 2021.

In a city where 61 percent of residents say they’re struggling to meet their basic needs, Mamdani is gaining traction by vowing to “lower the cost of living” in New York City. His housing plan, one of his ideas on how to make New York more affordable, costs $100 billion, only slightly less than the entire size of this year’s city budget. That’s on top of the $7 billion his other agenda items would cost, including $800 million for free buses, $1.1 billion to build a new Department of Community Safety, and $5 billion funding free childcare for all kids ages 6 weeks to 5 years.

Mamdani is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a group that advocates abolishing prisons, granting voting rights to some “noncitizens,” ending “Israeli apartheid,” and establishing “a democratic secular state, from the river to the sea.” He has even said he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli prime minister ever stepped foot in New York to prove “our values are in line with international law.”

Mamdani has also attended rallies held by Within Our Lifetime, a radical anti-Israel group that has been denounced by other progressives, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for protesting an exhibit dedicated to victims of October 7, 2023, the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that left 1,200 dead. As the group reportedly chanted “kill another Zionist now” outside the exhibit, survivors inside gave testimony about the horror.

When asked twice to clarify his relationship to the group, the Mamdani campaign did not provide comment to The Free Press.

Six years ago, Mamdani was a total unknown, working as a foreclosure prevention counselor for Chhaya, a nonprofit focused on the “well-being of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities in New York City.” That year, only one year after moving to Astoria, Queens, from the Upper West Side, he decided to run in the 2020 election for his new neighborhood’s seat in the New York State Assembly.

Dems fight bill to stop illegal immigrant voting despite polls showing voter support 208 Democrats on Thursday voted against the Trump-backed measure that would crack down on noncitizen voting y Deirdre Heavey , Elizabeth Elkind

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-fight-bill-stop-illegal-immigrant-voting-despite-polls-showing-voter-support

The House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on Thursday, with 208 Democrats voting against the President Donald Trump-backed measure that would crack down on noncitizen voting.

The SAVE Act, which passed 220-208, now heads to the Senate, where it will need the support of some Democrats to meet the 60-vote threshold for advancement. Democrats have rejected the bill, despite polling indicating bipartisan support for voter ID requirements. 

A Gallup Poll released ahead of the 2024 election found that 84% of respondents favor requiring a photo ID to vote, and 83% support requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time. 

If passed in the Senate and signed into law by Trump, the SAVE Act by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would require voters to obtain proof of citizenship in person before they register for a federal election, and it would remove noncitizens from voter rolls. 

Good News! The New York Times Has Found Its Candidate for 2028! A perfect choice considering the source. by Robert Spencer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/good-news-the-new-york-times-has-found-its-candidate-for-2028/

It’s early yet. A great deal is going to happen before the actual choosing of the 2028 Democratic presidential candidate that will upset any calculations that are being made now. Nevertheless, that isn’t stopping Democrats and non-Democrats alike from speculating as to who will emerge as the nominee of the Party of Enforced Insanity.

Kamala Harris has a big lead in the polls, but no one is particularly thrilled about that, least of all the Democrats who jumped off the cliff of Joy with her in 2024, and so the party top dogs are casting around with increasing desperation for someone to pull them out of the hole they’ve dug themselves into.

On Sunday, the New York Times picked its candidate (at least for now): it rolled out a puff piece over 1,500 words long, complete with flattering photos of the anointed candidate and earnest analysis of why she was the right choice for right-thinking people — that is, for the Times, left-thinking people. The choice of the moment for the New York Times is none other than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick).

Yes, it’s really true. The New York Times is touting, as a viable presidential candidate, the congresswoman whose lack of basic knowledge of how the U.S. government works and other matters that you’d think even a bartender would know has made her an enduring object of ridicule among patriots. The congresswoman who has inspired ongoing speculation as to whether the “D” after her name stands for “Ditz.” The congresswoman who is so far to the left as to make Chairman Mao look like a capitalist roader. That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It’s precisely because AOC is so very far to the left that the Grey Lady wants our nation to turn its lonely eyes to her. “For the last decade,” the Times puff piece begins, “Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been running for president, planning a run for president or pushing former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to adopt more progressive policies.” By “progressive,” of course, the Times means statist, Washington-centered, federally controlled and authoritarian.

Real Election Reform At Last?

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/03/28/real-election-reform-at-last/

Lost amid a flash flood of recent news, President Donald Trump’s executive order to make American elections more fair and less likely to be corrupted by ideology-driven election officials is possibly a game-changer. If Trump’s order withstands the inevitable onslaught of legal and political challenges it will face, it will make a huge difference in future elections.

The ink had barely dried on Trump’s reform than the New York Times, setting the tone for the national media, ran this headline: “Trump Is Trying to Gain More Power Over Elections. Is His Effort Legal?”

So what does Trump’s order, dubbed “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” actually do?

Mainly, it seeks to ensure that those who vote are indeed American citizens – as required by current law, which states ignore or routinely fail to enforce – and that votes received after Election Day don’t get counted, since such votes are highly susceptible to cheating.

To do this, anyone filling out a federal voter registration form will need “documentary proof of citizenship” (for virtually all people, this requires doing nothing, since they are already recorded as U.S. citizens in federal databases).

It will require states to clean up their voter rolls, or lose federal funding for their elections, and encourages sharing of information across databases with the federal government.

It (again) bans foreign contributions to federal, state, or local elections, a law that already exists on the books but is rarely enforced.

It also requires, and this is important, paper ballots, or “a voter-verifiable paper record,” and bans voting systems using barcodes or QR codes, which can be tampered with, for vote data.

And it also reverses a number of Biden executive actions (“Bidenbucks,” anyone?) that, essentially, “turned federal agencies into Democratic voter turnout centers.”

Or, as our buddies over at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity put it: Trump Orders Clean Elections – What a Concept.

New York Appeals Court Blocks NYC Noncitizen Voting Law, Siding with Republicans David Zimmerman

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/new-york-appeals-court-blocks-nyc-noncitizen-voting-law-siding-with-republicans/

New York’s highest court on Thursday blocked a New York City law that would have allowed noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, upholding lower court rulings that sided with Republicans who challenged the measure.

In January 2022, New York City became the first major city in the nation to grant municipal voting rights to noncitizens after the the City Council passed the law in late 2021. The measure, however, was never fully implemented due to a legal challenge led by Republicans. If the challenge failed, more than 800,000 green card holders would have been allowed to vote in local elections, such as mayoral races.

The historically progressive New York Court of Appeals struck down the law by a 6-1 margin, concluding the New York constitution only allows citizens to vote.

While Republicans argued all noncitizens are prohibited from casting ballots, Democrats said the law should be interpreted as a floor instead of a ceiling. From that perspective, local governments could hypothetically expand voter eligibility to whomever they wish. The appeals court disagreed with this argument.

“Under that interpretation, municipalities are free to enact legislation that would enable anyone to vote – including . . . thirteen-year-old children,” Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote for the majority opinion.