There was no defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory.
The man who shockingly secured the Democratic nomination in June has un-shockingly won the election. Zohran Mamdani, the dimpled, wise-cracking democratic socialist, will become mayor of New York, America’s most populous city.
For those with a taste for 11th-hour upsets in politics, there was little reason to anticipate a surprise. The Mamdani campaign carried the momentum from its primary battle, drawing the highest turnout in a New York mayoral race since the 1960s.
