Mamdani, 33, a two-term Queens assemblyman, replicated on a citywide scale what fellow socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accomplished in one congressional district when she toppled former Congressman Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary, with a new coalition that included younger voters.

Democratic Socialistic Zohran Mamdani rocked the political establishment by beating Andrew Cuomo and winning NYC's mayoral primary by a 12-point margin.

Republican leaders wasted little time over the past 24 hours seeking to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party, painting the leading New York mayoral candidate as a left-wing extremist and signaling that they would try to tie him to other Democratic candidates across the country.