‘We Have Toppled A Political Dynasty’: Mamdani Comes Out Swinging In Victory Speech

Zohran Mamdani hit the ground running in his first speech after his victory in the New York City mayoral election — and he aimed squarely at Trump.

The new mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, did not waste any time.

“The sun may have set over our city this evening,” he began his victory speech on Tuesday night, “but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

The immediate name-check of the famous socialist, political candidate and labor activist who ran for president while in prison for political dissent, was maybe not standard fare for a candidate’s victory speech. But it was just the start for Mamdani, the democratic socialist who ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of affordability that included services such as free buses, rent freezes, and universal child care. As he noted in his speech, he never apologized for his stances as a democratic socialist.

Instead, he issued a challenge to President Donald Trump and to the broader political status quo.

“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said. “And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it is how we stop the next one.”