After New York City chose Zohran Mamdani to become the city's 111th mayor, exit polls revealed that the mayor-elect captured the majority of votes from both the younger population and newcomers to the city. Some experts said Mamdani's success with these voters resulted from his campaign's messaging about challenging the status quo. "He awakened something in them. That goes for the new voters and young voters, where they thought that they had to accept the status quo of politics as usual and things that are coming out of Washington, D.C., and the corruption that we've had, and they realize that they actually don't have to look that way," Christina Greer, an associate political science professor at Fordham University, told ABC News. Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, captured 78%
How Mamdani clinched the votes of young people, newcomers to NYC
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