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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, New York City\u2019s next mayor, has delivered a four-word message to \u201cdespot\u201d President Donald Trump in a fiery victory speech<\/a> in Brooklyn Tuesday night. <\/p>\n \u201cIf anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n Mamdani, a democratic socialist, beat former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was running as an independent, in the city\u2019s mayoral race.<\/p>\n Also on Tuesday night, Virginia elected its first female governor after former Democratic congresswoman Abigail Spanberger beat Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears.<\/p>\n In New Jersey, Democratic Representative Mikie Sherrill won the gubernatorial race over former Republican state legislator Jack Ciattarelli. <\/p>\n Voters also decided to approve a ballot measure in California to redraw its congressional maps to favor Democrats in response to Texas\u2019 redistricting efforts favoring Republicans. <\/p>\n Trump ducked blame<\/a> following the Democratic electoral sweep, saying it was because he was not on the ballot.<\/p>\n <\/a>Top Democrats congratulate their party on election victories<\/p>\n Top Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former President Barack Obama, have congratulated members of their party on sweeping electoral victories Tuesday night. <\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin5 November 2025 05:00<\/p>\n <\/a>Mamdani’s four-word message to Trump<\/p>\n In a powerful moment, Zohran Mamdani, who is New York City\u2019s next mayor, offered \u201cfour words\u201d directly to the president.<\/p>\n \u201cIf anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not only how he stopped Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cSo Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.\u201d<\/p>\n His words were met with an explosion of cheers that lasted several minutes.<\/p>\n Mike Bedigan5 November 2025 04:50<\/p>\n <\/a>Mamdani vows New York will be the light ‘in this moment of political darkness’<\/p>\n In his remarks, Mamdani vowed that New York would now be the light \u201cin this moment of political darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHere, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall, your struggle is ours too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mamdani also vowed to fight the \u201cscourge of antisemitism\u201d while also making sure that Muslims living in the city \u201cknow they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election,\u201d he said to roars from his supporters. \u201cThis new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n Mike Bedigan 5 November 2025 04:39<\/p>\n <\/a>Mamdani victory speech: ‘Breathe this moment in’<\/p>\n Despite acknowledging that he had \u201casked so much\u201d from his supporters, Mamdani made \u201cone final request.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBreathe this moment in,\u201d he told cheering crowds in Brooklyn Tuesday night.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat. Held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count. Held it because we cannot afford to exhale.<\/p>\n \u201cThanks to all of those who sacrifice so much, we are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn.\u201d<\/p>\n Mike Bedigan5 November 2025 04:33<\/p>\n <\/a>Mamdani thanks younger voters for electoral victory<\/p>\n In his remarks, Mamdani thanked younger voters, who had helped \u201cusher in a new era of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn January 1, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City, and that is because of you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo before I say anything else, I must say this, thank you. Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past.<\/p>\n \u201cYou showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani also thanked those who, he said, were \u201cso often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own.\u201d<\/p>\n He included Yemeni Bodega owners, Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers, Uzbek nurses,Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.<\/p>\n With a smile he added thanks to \u201caunties,\u201d referring to controversy during the campaign around his use of the phrase.<\/p>\n Mike Bedigan5 November 2025 04:29<\/p>\n <\/a>Mamdani takes jab at Cuomo in victory speech<\/p>\n Addressing his supporters at a celebration in Brooklyn Zohran Mamdani wished his rival, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, \u201conly the best in private life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut let tonight be the final time I utter his name, as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani added that he and his supporters had \u201ctoppled a political dynasty.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe future is in our hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mike Bedigan5 November 2025 04:25<\/p>\n <\/a>NYC mayoral candidate Sliwa gets emotional in concession speech <\/p>\n In his concession speech, an emotional Republican Curtis Sliwa vowed to \u201cmobilize\u201d against socialism but wished Zohran Mamdani luck in his administration.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you try to implement socialism,\u201d Sliwa warned, \u201cwe\u2019re not only organizing, but we are mobilizing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, I wish him good luck,\u201d he said of Mamdani, \u201cbecause if he does well, we all do well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEnjoy the night, because we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do to save our city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Asked after his 10-minute remarks whether he will run again after coming up short in 2021 and 2025, he said he\u2019s \u201cnot thinking about it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n Alex Woodward5 November 2025 04:20<\/p>\n <\/a>Californians vote to redraw congressional maps in favor of Democrats<\/p>\n Californians have voted to redraw congressional maps in favor of Democrats, per the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ballot measure, which was pushed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, is in response to Texas\u2019 redistricting efforts in favor of Republicans. <\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin5 November 2025 04:05<\/p>\n <\/a>Watch: Sliwa wishes Mamdani luck after election victory<\/p>\n Republican Curtis Sliwa has wished Zohran Mamdani luck after the democratic socialist beat him in New York City\u2019s mayoral election. <\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin5 November 2025 04:00<\/p>\n