The last round of ranked-choice ballots showed the left-wing candidate winning 56 percent of the votes, to Cuomo’s 44.
This is amazing and unfortunately triggering Trump and Team. Presidential threat to deport him already being worked on.
I wouldnt doubt NYC billionaires are working double time to try and find somebody to off him on contract
And now the mayoral primary that the party pulled out all the stops for is no big deal.
So natually the nominee won’t have access to party funding.
The DNC is gonna work hard to destroy ranked choice voting, aren’t they?
In NYC at least, that would require repealing the amendment to the City Charter - a move that would be extremely unpopular, given that the ballot measure to amend the charter for ranked-choice primaries passed with >70% support (or over 500,000 votes).
They may not have to: there’s already a push to “denaturalize citizens,” and I’m pretty sure Mamdani is at or near the top of the list for that and subsequent deportation.
I kind of want this to happen if only because it might finally anger some Americans into action.
Nah no way it would
If there were no ranked choice, he still would have won in this case. He won the plurality of the votes on the first round (unexpectedly and a massive over performance of the polls)
Granted ranked choice may have made more people feel safer to consider him in the first place, but still worth noting here
yes. ranked choice voting happened in alaska in 2020, and they tried but failed to repeal it in 2024.
although alaska isnt by means a left leaning state, the establishment does not like ranked choice voting
