Mamdani’s trouncing of Cuomo marked the biggest national victory for lefties since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her first election in an upset over entrenched Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018, Smith said.

In a town where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall. That bloc is squarely behind Mamdani and fighting hard for victory in November.

Zohran Mamdani is hoping New York City voters will vote for him November, but he's also hoping to get support from the state's representatives in Congress.

Zohran Mamdani followed in his father’s path by setting up a branch of a US radical Muslim group at his elite alma mater in Maine, The Post has learned. The Democratic mayoral nominee co-founded a branch of Students for Justice for Palestine at Bowdoin College in 2013,

Democratic nominee for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani was pulled offstage by a campaign staffer as he tried to answer more reporter questions following an endorsement event.

The Democratic mayoral nominee told members of the Partnership for New York City he still supported the ideas behind the slogan.

The comments came in a closed-door meeting with an influential business consortium, the New York Times reported.

AOC, who loudly backed Mamdani during the primary, said she was eager for people in DC to meet her fellow lefty firebrand face-to- face to hear his plan for NYC.