“Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching this, I have four words for you: turn up the volume,” challenged Zohran Mamdani after winning victory as Mayor-elect of New York.
Mexico City, November 5 (However).- Zohran Mamdanithe democratic socialist politician who will be Mayor of New Yorkthe largest and richest city in USAchallenged the President on Tuesday Donald Trump after being elected to said position. “New York will continue to be a city of immigrantsbuilt by immigrants and driven by immigrants,” he said on the stage of the Brooklyn Theater.
Mamdani He swept the votes with 50.6 percent of the preferences, which surpassed his opponent, Andrew M. Cuomowho accumulated 41.2 percent of the votes, already Curtis We fight which barely reached 7.4 percent. It was one of the elections in New York with the highest participation in the last five decades, whose results favored the democratic socialist 34 years old, who is also Muslim y migrant.
“New York will continue to be a city of immigrants, built by immigrants and driven by immigrants. And starting tonight, led by an immigrant (…) To reach any of us,” Mamdani warned in his speech in reference to Donald Trump that the President “will have to go over all of us.”
“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city where he was born,” said the next Mayor of New York. “And if there is any way to terrorize a despot, it is by dismantling the conditions that allowed him to accumulate power,” he added.
“So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching this, I have four words for you: ‘turn the volume up,'” he said, receiving applause that lasted several minutes.
The Muslim politician managed to win the vote thanks to proposals such as rent freezes, free buses for New York residents and free daycare for minors up to five years old. In this sense, The New York Times stated that Mandani became “an electrifying voice for New Yorkers disillusioned by the exorbitant cost of living and a scandal-plagued old guard.”
“In this moment of political darkness, we will be the light,” he said, referring again to Donald Trump, in addition to adding: “I am a Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And, most seriously of all, I refuse to apologize for it.”
Zohran Mamdani’s victory becomes a resounding defeat for Donald Trump, since in recent months he denigrated the Muslim politician and even threatened New Yorkers with taking away federal funds if the official won, so this result represents a punishment against the racist policies of the President of the United States.
For his part, Donald Trump published a cryptic four-word message on his Truth Social account, which coincided with the victory speech of the Mayor-elect of New York.
“…And so it all begins!” the White House tenant wrote on Tuesday.