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Is New York mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani the future of US Democrats?
With a rent freeze, free buses, and universal healthcare among his hugely popular campaign promises, Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to frontrunner in the New York mayoral election has been propelled by a package of radical policy proposals. We ask Lindsey Cormack, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Stevens Institute of Techonolgy, whether US Democrats should model their campaigns on Mamdani's.
With a rent freeze, free buses, and universal healthcare among his hugely popular campaign promises, Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to frontrunner in the New York mayoral election has been propelled by a package of radical policy proposals. We ask Lindsey Cormack, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Stevens Institute of Techonolgy, whether US Democrats should model their campaigns on Mamdani's.
