Zohran Mamdani used his victory speech after being elected mayor of New York City to speak directly to Donald Trump.

“After all, 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 late Tuesday night. “And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”

The U.S. president has been an outspoken critic of Mamdani, threatening to pull federal funding from the city if Mamdani won and saying that there was no chance of success with a “communist” like him in charge.

Mamdani was declared the winner of the mayoral race not long after polls closed at 9 p.m. ET. He had garnered 50.4 per cent of the votes, the Associated Press reported. More than two mi

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