Zohran Mamdani Wins a historic win in New york

By Ayush Sachan

The 34-year-old state lawmaker defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to become New York’s youngest mayor in over a century.

New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani struck a careful balance between cooperation and confrontation in his first remarks after his historic victory offering to work with President Donald Trump on “cheaper groceries and a lower cost of living,” but warning he would “utilise the courts” if the president tried to punish the city for electing a democratic socialist.

“I have said time and again that I will work with the president if he wants to work together to deliver on his campaign promises of cheaper groceries or a lower cost of living,” Mamdani told NY1 on Wednesday, adding pointedly that he would not “be intimidated” by threats from the White House.

Speaking to ABC’s Good Morning America, Mamdani said his administration would not treat Trump’s orders as law “just by virtue of the fact that President Trump is saying them.”

“The first thing is, you actually utilise the courts,” he said. “You stop treating things as being law just because he declares them so.”

In the lead-up to the election, Trump had repeatedly targeted Mamdani, calling him a “communist” and warning that a socialist mayor would mean “the end of New York as we know it.” The president had also threatened to withhold federal funding from the city if New Yorkers voted for him.