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Is Zohran Mamdani's primary win the Democrats' Tea Party moment?

Is Zohran Mamdani's primary win the Democrats' Tea Party moment?

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New York State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani pulled off an
astonishing upset this week.

In the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, he beat out the
long-favored winner, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the
race only hours after the polls closed. The two candidates were of
the same party, but held very different positions within it: Cuomo
is older, spent more than a decade as Governor and positioned
himself as a law-and-order centrist. Mamdani is younger, newer to
politics and a total progressive.

This is a primary race in just one city, but it's been making
national news and could shake up the Democratic party's strategy
post-Trump re-election. Brittany sits down with Christian Paz,
senior politics reporter at Vox, and Max Rivlin-Nadler, reporter
and co-publisher at Hell Gate, a local news site for New York City.
They discuss what this race says about where progressive energy is
coming from - and why the Democrats might be having a Tea Party
moment.

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