Mamdani heads to Harlem after stunning New York City primary results
Mamdani appeared at a National Action Network rally days after declaring victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the presumed favorite in the primary. Results will be finalized after the city's ranked choice vote-counting resumes Tuesday.
'What our victory showed on election night was less a victory between one man and another, but a victory for a city that New Yorkers can afford,' Mamdani said at a rally attended by Black clergy and filmmaker Spike Lee
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the influential leader of the network, praised Mamdani for coming to the rally, despite reports that he lost some of the city's most solidly Black neighborhoods in the primary.
'He could have went the other way and said, 'It's me against them.' But he came this morning and he proclaimed something. And I gave him a lot of credit for that,' Sharpton said.
The winner of the Democratic primary advances to November's election.
Mayor Eric Adams is running for reelection as an independent candidate. Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the crime-fighting Guardian Angels, is running as a Republican. Cuomo, who has conceded defeat in the primary, also could run as an independent candidate.
In Harlem, the 33-year-old state lawmaker stuck to a cost-of-living theme that skyrocketed him to political stardom, weaving in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., the Bible and the city's first Black mayor, David Dinkins.
He said people question whether the city will become 'a museum' of a place where working people could once thrive.
'What we have seen in the last two weeks is a hunger from New Yorkers to move beyond the days of museums and relics and make this city a living, breathing testament to what is possible.'
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