"MAGA influencers, Republican lawmakers, and conspiracy theorists all responded to Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory in New York by pushing far-right anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rhetoric and claiming the city had fallen. Mamdani, who campaigned on progressive issues and identifies as a democratic socialist, will be the youngest New York mayor in over a century. He will also be the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor."
""A third-world communist won in New York because New York is a third-world city now," right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh wrote on X. "This is mass migration working exactly as intended. It isn't anymore complicated than that." White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration's immigration policy, meanwhile posted a screenshot from a 2023 report on the Nyc.gov website that showed around 50 percent of New York households contain at least one immigrant, without adding a comment."
Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoral race with a near nine-point lead over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa trailing at about seven percent. Mamdani identifies as a democratic socialist, campaigned on progressive issues, and will be the youngest mayor in over a century as well as the city's first Muslim and South Asian mayor. Right-wing influencers and some Republican figures framed the result as evidence of mass migration and urban decline, deploying anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rhetoric. Prominent conservatives compared Mamdani to extremist labels and highlighted immigrant household statistics to support their reaction.
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