Mamdani rallies his supporters in Washington Heights with impassioned message to reject the status quo
Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani addressed a crowd of 3,000 supporters at a campaign rally in Washington Heights on Monday night, encouraging New Yorkers to leave the status quo behind.
The democratic socialist delivered a fiery 20-minute speech that mostly looked past the Nov. 4 general election, suggesting a likely victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa as a foregone conclusion. Mamdani holds a double-digit lead over Cuomo in the polls, with Sliwa in a distant third, even after the current Mayor, Eric Adams, bowed out of the race late last month.
The main crux of his address sought to answer his own question of whether “what we aspire towards is possible.”
“On the evening of Nov. 4, when the world learns that we have won again, they will know our answer to the question, we choose the future, because for all of those who say our time is coming, my friends, I say our time is now,” Mamdani told the cheering crowd at the United Palace theater on 175th Street and Broadway.
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