Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral race, NBC News projects, after the 34-year-old democratic socialist energized progressives in the city and across the country, while generating intense backlash from President Donald Trump and Republicans as well as some Democratic moderates.

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, on Tuesday handily defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who ran as a third-party candidate after losing the Democratic primary — and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who mounted a third-party campaign for re-election after winning as a Democrat in 2021, dropped out of the race in September and endorsed Cuomo last month.

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