Zohran Mamdani didn’t make it 24 hours into winning the Democratic primary for New York City mayor before he started to become a national figure as Republicans pounced on his victory and sought to

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.