The June primary victory of Zohran Mamdani over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo came as a shock to everyone, but perhaps most of all to the consultant class, the people who make a living predicting what voters will do and trying to steer their behavior. Not only was the millennial democratic socialist candidate from outside the Democratic mainstream, but so was his campaign manager – a 34-year-old woman they had never heard of who masterminded what even Mamdani’s haters acknowledge was the best-run mayoral campaign in recent history.

This same woman – who had never managed any campaign before, let alone a citywide one, let alone a successful one – is now the architect of the likely incoming Mamdani administration. She is the closest adviser to the probable next mayor, whose Rolodex is more limit

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