Zohran Now Official NYC Mayoral Candidate After Third Round WinMHM NEWS

Zohran Now Official NYC Mayoral Candidate After Third Round Win

Transcript

00:00zoran now official nyc mayoral candidate after third round win dear viewers if you like this

00:13news please like it and share your comments in the comment box the new york city board

00:18of elections officially confirmed zoran mamdani's victory in the democratic mayoral primary yesterday

00:24tuesday this finalizes his nomination as the party's candidate for the upcoming november mayoral

00:34election the results of the rank choice voting where voters rank up to five candidates in order

00:40of preference released yesterday showed zoran securing victory in the third round with 56

00:45percent of the vote he began his campaign as a relatively unknown member of the new york state

00:51assembly to win in the third round a candidate needs at least 50 percent of the votes rank

00:56choice voting began in new york in 2021 as the democratic candidate zoran will face current

01:03mayor eric adams in the new york mayoral election adams first won as the democratic candidate in

01:09the mayoral election in 2021 however this time

01:13run as an independent candidate although he was indicted on corruption charges the department of

01:23justice later dismissed them after that he decided to leave the party and run as an independent in a

01:30new video posted on social media platform x zoran compared his primary victory to adams's 2021 election

01:37campaign mamdani said we always thought our victory would come after multiple rounds of rank choice

01:44voting it was truly surprising when we got so many votes in the first round which eric adams didn't even

01:51get in seven rounds in the last election the 33 year old mamdani of indian descent is a muslim born in

01:59uganda he identifies as a democratic socialist in the primary he defeated the moderate veteran politician

02:06andrew cuomo zori has created discomfort among democrats their concern is that mamdani could become

02:14an easy target for republican attacks due to his political ideology in the new video zoran states

02:21that his goal is to bring people's support back to the democratic party from the republican party

02:26notably zoran won in several areas of new york city where residents voted for republican candidate

02:34donald trump in last year's presidential election after the board of elections confirmed zoran's

02:40victory trump was asked how he would handle it if mamdani won the final election and tried to prevent

02:46the arrest of immigrants in new york city as mayor in response trump said then we would have to arrest

02:53him look we don't need any communists in our country if there is anyone i on behalf of the country

02:59will keep a very careful eye on them zoran had previously said that operations against immigrants

03:05were frightening people and that the agents conducting these operations showed no interest in following the law

03:11last week after the preliminary primary results were announced former governor andrew cuomo

03:17called his rival zoran to announce his withdrawal from the competition in the final count cuomo received

03:2344 percent of the vote despite losing the party primary cuomo can run as an independent candidate

03:31however he has not yet publicly commented on this along with adams zoran will face republican

03:38candidate curtis sliwa and independent candidate attorney jim walden