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What Zohran Mamdani’s Win Can Teach the Democratic Party

If Democrats want to reach disillusioned voters, start where he did: their doorsteps.

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CJ Penneys (Charles Penneys)
Nov 12, 2025
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A year ago, Zohran Mamdani was polling at one percent. Every pundit said his mayoral campaign in New York City was a sideshow — a socialist experiment that might play on Twitter but not on ballots. He wasn’t supposed to beat a legacy name like Andrew Cuomo, or the millionaires and billionaires who poured obscene amounts of money into trying to…

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