As Zohran Mamdani becomes the 111th mayor of New York, Republicans and Democrats are preparing for a political clash for the ages. The 34-year-old socialist (about to become one of the most well-known Democrats in the USA) is on a collision course with the US president.
On paper, the two New Yorkers couldn’t be more different. Trump, the 79-year-old former real estate baron, lived it up in Manhattan in the 1990s, calling Fifth Avenue his home. Mamdani is a social media savvy former housing counsellor from Queens, who has promised to “freeze the rent” for people living in the roughly 30 per cent of city units designated as “rent stabilised”.
