On Nov. 4, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election, with campaign promises like a rent freeze and fast and free buses. He gave hope to New Yorkers across the city — as well as inadvertently giving hope to daters.

Mamdani met his wife, animator and illustrator Rama Duwaji, on Hinge in 2021, and they married in February . (Hinge doesn't typically comment on public figures' personal relationships, the app told Mashable.) In the days since Mamdani's win, some have taken to social media to share their hope to find their future partner in a similar fashion. Others, though, are lamenting that they haven't found their own leftist, smiling mayoral winner, and likely won't, because the app "isn't the same" as it was four years ago.

"This can't be the same Hinge Zohran

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