A new AARP/Gotham Polling survey in New York City finds Zohran Mamdani way ahead in the race for mayor with 42%, followed by Andrew Cuomo at 23%, Curtis Sliwa at 17%, Eric Adams at 9%, Jim Walden at 1%.

Another 8% are undecided.

One of the biggest challenges that faces the New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani is how he will draw upon DSA’s organizing support “while transcending its fractiousness and some members’ ideological excesses,” Michael Powell argues:

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in June’s Democratic mayoral primary stunned the political world. Just four months earlier, he was polling at one percent. By summer, he had routed three-term former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by double-digits.

There are plenty of lessons for Democrats in Mamdani’s rise — his relentlessly upbeat message,

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