If Mamdani wins the elections, he will become the Mayor of one of the great economic and cultural centers in the world, with a budget of 133 billion dollars at his disposal and 300,000 public officials at his command.
Mexico City, 3 of November (sineefarg).- Sohran Mamdani, young political United States of Ugandan origin, is emerging as the favorite figure of the electors New Yorkers that next Tuesday they will go to the ballot boxes to designate the next ruler who will lead this important Alcaldía of the States Joined (EU).
Mamdani, 33 years old, came to this important electoral period harassed by attacks from different political fronts that attacked him either because of his foreign origin or because of his political-ideological ideology that places him as a politician identified with principles of social and economic justice for the disadvantaged sectors of American society.
The attacks against him are made by various personalities, from former Governor Andrew Cuomo, – current rival with whom he will submit to the popular will at the polls – to the diatribes of President Donald Trump, who has not tired of describing him as a “dangerous socialist” and who recently threatened to put him in jail if he prevents, as he promised during the campaign, the raids of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) in New York.
Early this morning, our city still in darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.
As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.
Tomorrow, we win it together. pic.twitter.com/tGw0VcwAVb
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) November 3, 2025
The popularity that it has managed to gather is due to the political program it wields in favor of vulnerable sectors. Among the most outstanding promises is the reduction of the cost of housing in one of the cities with the most expensive square meter in the world.
Zohran Mamdani is perceived by his supporters as an example of the new progressive, young and multicultural current of the party that
It represents a simultaneous antidote to the stagnation of his party (the Democrats) and to Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
His rise in the polls, which put him with a 15 percentage point advantage over his rival Cuomo, as well as his overwhelming victory in the Democratic primary for Mayor, have shown that Mamdani has unflinchingly faced an avalanche of criticism that would have been the downfall of any other candidate.
The progressive politician starred in one of the highlights of his campaign during an interview with Fox NewsTrump’s favorite channel, where he responded to accusations of anti-Semitism for characterizing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza as genocide, arguing that he also condemned Hamas’s previous attacks against Israel as crimes against International Law by the elite of the Jewish nation.
The “communist lunatic”, as Trump describes him, has managed to overcome several attacks that even threaten him with deportation; efforts of the American extreme right promoted by Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, which have only resulted in a new boost for the 33-year-old in the polls.
The situation reached such a point that Trump himself, behind closed doors and according to sources from the Wall Street Journalconfessed to his circle of friends that Mamdani seems unbeatable and that everything seems to indicate that he will take down Cuomo and the eccentric Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, another rarity in the American electoral landscape: part of the electorate has fallen in love with his moderate spirit, far from the MAGA movement.
NEW YORK CITY, get out there and VOTE!
Remember I’m on the second line of the ballot under Fight & Deliver.#VoteforCuomo pic.twitter.com/f656SOl3zp
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) November 3, 2025
However, Mamdani has not received the expected support from his coreligionists either. The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, whose critics criticize his refusal to condemn Israeli actions in Gaza and the receipt of large donations received from the country’s main Jewish lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), dedicated a tepid message of support to his campaign for affordable housing at the end of last month.
Not even exponents of progressivism such as Senator Bernie Sanders or Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have enjoyed such authority, and they do not connect with the Muslim community as clearly as the social democratic candidate, who once again puts his confession at the forefront.
“We will no longer hide in the shadows,” he said in his speech at the end of October at the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx; a message that resonates in states like Detroit, where the town of Dearborn became the first Arab-majority city in the country earlier this decade.
Zohran Mamdani represents the symbol of the renewal of the Democratic Party through distancing itself from the center and proximity to left-wing progressivism “at a dangerous moment for the country and at the precipice of its hope,” as Ocasio-Cortez described it.
Mamdani’s victory “will send a clear message to Trump,” added the Congresswoman while accompanying the social democratic candidate through the Bronx: “It existed a day before he became President, and it will exist a day after.”