(27 Jun 2025)
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New York City – 26 June 2025
1. Various of the city
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanzeela Rahman, software engineer:
"When Zohran first came onto the scene, a lot of people were very skeptical, but also a lot people were drawn to the fact that he was unabashedly Muslim and unabashedly brown. Like he was putting out campaign videos of him walking around in a ghutrah, right? And there are so many Muslim men who try to be incognito or try to make themselves more palatable for I guess the larger sanitized version of the world. And Zohran straight up like. I’m here, I’m brown, I am Muslim, I am proud, I think I deserve to be seen as his whole being and you can too. I feel like specifically as a visibly Muslim woman, a lot of Muslim men are able to pass in certain situations, but a Muslim woman is never able to pass and Zohran is kind of empowering them to also, you know, not think about passing or putting certain identities to the background, but like bringing them forward. And actually drawing on them for strength."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jowel Uddin, lawyer:
"I think Zohran’s campaign has inspired a lot of South Asians to run for office, but also just to be involved in politics, right? Just to be involved in what’s happening in our neighborhoods, making sure that the policies that we want are implemented, because we grew up in New York, we built New York and we deserve to stay in New York and we deserved to have a dignified future in the city that we built. So Zohran’s inspired people to run the office, whether that’s city council, for the mayor, the senate, or potentially the presidency. But also inspired us to get involved in politics and make sure that our priorities are met."
4. Various of the street
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Farah Salam, works for a local city council member:
"In the last weeks before the primary election, despite all the anti-Muslim hate, all the anti-muslim bias, all of the death threats that he’s received, simply for being a Muslim man who supports Palestinians, it just reaffirms the fact that because he won this election, we were being heard, and that hate is not going to trump what is going to benefit the best of the rest of New Yorkers."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Shehab Chowdhury, coacher at Bangladeshi Americans for political progress:
"I think he focused on issues that specifically impact working-class New Yorkers, immigrant New Yorker who are living in a moment of fear, living in moment where they don’t know what may happen to them in this current environment where there are lots of detentions happening."
7. Various of the street
STORYLINE:
Zohran Mamdani’s surge to the top in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary came with the help of an army of volunteers who set a goal of knocking on 1 million doors to get votes.
While the results are not yet finalized, Mamdani’s likely primary victory has jolted the Democratic establishment, leaving many astonished that a 33-year-old democratic socialist outmaneuvered the better-funded and more experienced Cuomo.
Many New Yorkers from the Bangladeshi and Muslim communities said they saw parts of themelves reflected during Mamdani’s campaign.
Those close to the Mamdani campaign credit a seemingly omnipresent candidate devoted to speaking directly to New Yorkers, along with a sprawling field operation that helped excite new voters.
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