admin
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, 34, delivered a passionate victory speech Tuesday night, calling his win a historic mandate for change. Soon to become New York City’s first socialist, Muslim, and South Asian mayor, Mamdani dedicated his victory to immigrant and working-class New Yorkers, condemning Islamophobia and celebrating grassroots power. Quoting Eugene Debs and Jawaharlal Nehru, he framed his triumph as the dawn of a new political era.
Speaking at Brooklyn’s Paramount Theatre, he praised laborers whose “calloused hands” built his campaign, declaring, “Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.” Mamdani pledged sweeping reforms, including rent freezes for regulated apartments, free citywide bus service, universal child care, and a new Department of Community Safety to handle mental health crises.
Promising to govern boldly, he said, “New York will be the light.” As he closed, Mamdani vowed to deliver real change for ordinary citizens: “This power—it’s yours. This city belongs to you.”
Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech tonight was reminiscent of something you would expect to hear from a dictator like Fidel Castro, not the Mayor of NYC.
“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no problem to small for government to care about” pic.twitter.com/pOCN5aUvGY
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) November 5, 2025
