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The former governor’s stunning concession could reshape a closely watched race and the party’s political future
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Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist and state lawmaker, is on track to win the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor, marking a major upheaval of the city’s political landscape with all eyes on the future of the fractured party.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — widely considered among pundits to be the front-runner against a field of progressive candidates who urged supporters to keep him off their ballots — called Mamdani to concede Tuesday night after more than one million Democratic voters cast their ballots for the next chief executive of the largest city in the United States.
