#ANINews ‘Our time is now’ – NYC Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, speaks outside City Hall |USA

Source: ABC AFFILIATE WABC VIA REUTERS

Early in the morning on Monday (November 3) one day before Election Day in New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and his supporters walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to the seat of city government, City Hall. They carried a white and blue banner that read: “Our time is now” and chanted “Zohran Mayor, Zohran Mayor.”
Flanked by supporters like New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, Mamdani addressed the crowd from a podium outside City Hall.
“Today, the morning before Election Day, we have not only come so far, we stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city,” he said.
Mamdani, a Uganda-born state assembly member, has polled well ahead of his main rival, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, ahead of the November 4 general election.
Cuomo is running as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary. Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa is the Republican nominee.
Mamdani shocked political observers on June 24 with a convincing victory in the primary. Since then, his candidacy has won endorsements from party holdouts such as former Vice President Kamala Harris and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and he has received a steady stream of financial backing from small donors.
Mamdani’s policies range from hiking taxes on New York City’s wealthiest, raising the corporation tax, freezing stabilized apartment rental rates and increasing publicly subsidized housing, raising worries among the finance community that the city’s competitiveness will suffer.
His rise presents both risks and rewards for the National Democratic Party, which acknowledges the need to appeal to young voters but could become more vulnerable to Republican attacks due to Mamdani’s criticism of Israel and his Democratic socialism.

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