Mayoral Spew: Mamdani Mandate (and Cuomo Copium)
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Take a brief tour of Zohran Mamdani's teenaged bedroom.
All things must end, including this newsletter...for now!
Let's promise college isn't going to change us. Let's keep the group chat going.
The RCV results are in; a communist on Polymarket; and finally, who was the fastest mayoral candidate?
A conversation with a guy who Zohran just made slightly richer.
He didn't win the Democratic mayoral primary… but he won a lot of New Yorkers' hearts.
The mayor, flanked by members of his Table of Success, took swings at Zohran Mamdani in front of hundreds of his ride-or-die supporters.
Who scored big and who's going home with their tail tucked between their legs as we look toward November.
"I think that for him, the race 'til November needs to be staying on message—we can't start to water it down because we think it's going to attract a more moderate Democrat."
It's tough to cram 50,000 volunteers into one room, but a compelling vision for an affordable New York fits just fine.
It's the day you've been waiting for—or dreading.
"See number seven?" one man asked me. "No sweat. Looks good." This was the kind of strategic thinking of the betting man that I had come to the racetrack to find.