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Democrats count major victories in first elections under Trump’s presidency as the party reckons with its future

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Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens and prominent democratic socialist, was elected New York City’s next mayor, a victory that delivered a seismic blow to the city’s deep-rooted power structures and brought all eyes on a fractured Democratic Party charting its future against Donald Trump.