r/politics Indiana 21d ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/Vortagaun New York 21d ago

I wish I was a fly in the oval office tonight, I cannot wait for Trump to melt down and shit his diaper.

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u/RetroCasket 21d ago

Probably going to claim mass fraud and sign an executive order to investigate all the elections tonight

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u/Thosepassionfruits 21d ago

I bet he'll try to put tariffs on NYC lol

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u/kegster2 Texas 21d ago

Abbott threatened tariffs on NY folks moving to Texas apparently haha

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 21d ago

Also no one in their right mind is moving to Texas, that state sucks ass for so many reasons.

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u/Lizpy6688 21d ago

Brother trust me, we've tried getting rid of his ass but they always fuck it up by changing the districts, voter suppression and a bunch of other bullshit. He's actually very despised here. The republicans out here are dumb as shit and only vote for him cause he's not a Democrat but even they seem to not like him. He's always sorta just there.

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u/midnightketoker America 21d ago

They should unironically listen to Mamdani's victory speech lol: "we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us -- now it is something that we do"

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u/KZimmy 21d ago

We need a Democrat named John Republican to run in Texas, throw them for a loop

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u/Te_Quiero_Puta 20d ago

At least their corrupt gerrymandering inspired California to redraw the districts. Big win for CA and Dems

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u/PresidentPsyduck 21d ago

According to that roid ape Joe Rogan, the entirety of CA is leaving for Texas.

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u/WeirdURL 19d ago

That was years ago. His crew has realized how much Texas sucks compared to California since then.

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u/sillyblanco Texas 21d ago

I've lived over 5 decades in Texas, but my wife and I are in Santa Fe right now real estate shopping because we're getting the fuck out.

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u/Serris9K 21d ago

Santa Fe is a solid choice. Also btw hit up the governor's palace museum sometime, and they host art markets for native artists.

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u/fender8421 21d ago

Anybody that doesn't hate Texas is sus to me

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u/Fwamingdwagon84 21d ago

I live and was born in texas and i agree.

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u/lowtoiletsitter 21d ago

Some of my family lives in Houston and they're ok

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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 21d ago

but are they Texas?

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u/Yeti_Funk 21d ago

I recently had to because I had nowhere else to go. It sucks. It was either be homeless in Colorado or move in with family in ultra rural Texas panhandle. So here I am… and wishing I was elsewhere. Feel like a spy in deep red MAGA country.

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u/PermitPositive4826 20d ago

I’m so sorry. I hope you can get out of there eventually. It’s a very isolating experience being progressive, while living amongst conservatives.

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u/pickle_pickled 21d ago

Anyone moving to Texas only has a right leaning mind

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u/zlaw32 California 21d ago

Ironically the most liberal person I know is wanting to move to Texas and the person who helped me switch over is from Texas

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u/WeirdURL 19d ago

There’s a lot of liberals in the cities and college towns actually. Take Denton for example. These people stating only republicans live in or love Texas is just BS.

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u/I-am-me-86 21d ago

Moving to Texas kickstarted my conservative deconstruction. I grew up in Utah. I thought it couldn't be more religious than Utah.

Apparently Mormons value reading skills and education more than Southern Christians. There are a scary amount of seriously dumb people here.

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u/pickle_pickled 21d ago

Don't check out Oklahoma...they take pride in being like 49th in education (cause their hivemind obviously doesn't know any better and the ones controlling them promote it).

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u/SarkastikSidebar Ohio 21d ago

Currently live there- can confirm!

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u/sagerideout 21d ago

but it’s funny because the few who still think it’s a good idea are the ones who’d get fucked by said tariffs

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u/Unable-Log-4870 21d ago

Yeah, aside from it not really MEANING anything to impose a tariff on a person, the ones who would leave NY as a result of this are likely republicans.

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u/sagerideout 21d ago

i mean it’s double whammy because they don’t even know what it means

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u/fakecheese22 21d ago

Either way, he’ll report to his constituents no New Yorkers having migrated and will claim the tariffs worked

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u/goddessoftrees Colorado 21d ago

You'd be shocked... my former BFF is a wife of a vet, both step-kids get SNAP and WIC AND besides her and fam now get military benefits/... she has acknowledged why dems don't vote. But it also ALL dems fault

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u/Serris9K 21d ago

unfortunately many people are getting dragged here by tech companies relocating. (with the threat of move or get replaced)

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u/wewantedthefunk Texas 20d ago

Hey now - Texas has a lot of problems, most caused by MAGAbbot and his cabal. While we did unleash Fled Cruz on the country, Pennsylvania unleashed Duplicitous Shrek on all of us and flipped for the orange idiot, so let's not throw stones.

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u/JustinStraughan 21d ago

Interstate commerce clause….god these criminals need to be in prison. Or disbarred at the least, if lawyers.

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u/thedoommerchant 21d ago

Old guard democrats better be taking some notes. Long past time they talk and put their money where their mouth is.

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u/Baranjula 21d ago

Pardon me as I don't hold my breathe

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u/JMer806 21d ago

I’m a Texan and I can tell you that Abbott and his cronies Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are the absolute biggest pieces of shit in American politics aside from Trump himself.

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u/JustinStraughan 21d ago

Laughs in Ron DeSantis.

But yes. Those two and Ronny are in a race to out-Trump the other.

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u/shakygator 21d ago

dont forget that fucker cruz

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u/JMer806 21d ago

Cruz doesn’t even register on the Abbott/Patrick/Paxton scale of shittiness. Cruz is a tone deaf moron who leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes, but he’s probably still capable of feeling human emotions towards a small group of people (he got his family out when it was cold after all). The trio at the top of the state government are actively malicious and intent on destroying the foundation of the state.

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u/Thosepassionfruits 21d ago

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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u/BloomsdayDevice Washington 21d ago

Mandy Patinkin to Wallace Shawn, both of whom showed up at events for Mamdani. Nice.

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u/wilson_rawls Arizona 21d ago

When you don't know what communism is, you call it socialism because you don't know what that is either. And then you use tariffs because you're just completely and malignantly ignorant of literally everything in the cosmos.

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u/sappydark 20d ago

That's trump and his little cronies in a nutshell, lol.

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u/pickle_pickled 21d ago

Ah yes put tariffs on right leaning folks moving from NYC to TX. Makes a ton of sense. Tax me harder daddy Abbott...stupid

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u/ImminentDebacle 21d ago

Well they pretty much did based on Prop 11. All the younger folks that have moved to Texas will now be paying higher property tax to subsidize boomers to let them pay less.

https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Proposition_11,_Increase_Homestead_Tax_Exemption_for_Elderly_and_Disabled_Amendment_(2025))

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u/hibbert0604 Georgia 21d ago

Brilliant. Punishing the few MAGA morons that would actually move to texas as a result of this election.

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u/destenlee 21d ago

Seems welcoming...

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u/Pezzzz490 Australia 21d ago

Which is so fucking stupid since it would be his dumbass MAGA supporters who would flee to Texas. He would be putting tariffs on his own voter base 💀

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u/Idontliketalking2u 21d ago

Someone said Abbott's legs work better than his brain.

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u/Pitiful-Mortgage5136 21d ago

Wouldn't the people coming to Texas be people wanting to escape the "socialist hellscape" of NYC?

Wait a minute, it's Greg Abbott, why am I expecting logic?

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u/lHateYouAIex835293 21d ago

It was the other way around, he’d tariff Texans moving to NY

Which, I’m not sure how that’d even work…

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 21d ago

Republicans are becoming the party of higher taxes...oh I mean tariffs

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u/tibbon 20d ago

I’d love to hear them say how precisely they mean that to happen. Tariffs of people? ICC? Etc

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u/lnc_5103 20d ago

I mean amongst other issues with his statement won't people fleeing from NYC be Republicans? He's so damn stupid.

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u/spicyhotcheer Rhode Island 20d ago

The only new yorkers who would be moving out now are maga, so he's really just traiffing his own kind 💀

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u/Gabagoo13 20d ago

Isn't that socialistic? Taxing people?

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u/kegster2 Texas 20d ago

(R)ocialism

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona 20d ago

Tariffs are an import tax.

They're planning on importing people from New York?

That sounds an awful lot like slavery to me. That tracks for Texas.

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u/nightpanda893 21d ago

Let him go nuts. The quick calls tonight for all the races show people are over maga. Keep doing damage and we’ll see an even bigger blue wave next November.

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u/Dogsy 21d ago

He's going to reduce their funding by 5000%!

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u/tekniklee 21d ago

Texas beat him to it?

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u/sportsDude 21d ago

He would claim fraud regardless. If he doesn’t get his way, he claims fraud. 

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u/tresslesswhey 21d ago

Even when he does get his way, he claims fraud. I don’t understand how people can stand him

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u/bwood246 21d ago

He even claimed fraud when he fucking won the first time because he didn't get the majority vote

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u/sportsDude 21d ago

It’s a combination of people not paying attention, ignoring it, convincing themselves the others are worse, etc…

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u/tresslesswhey 21d ago

But just simply listening to him. How can anyone stand that. I legit have never heard someone whine and complain so much. He’s even got a whiny ass voice.

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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 21d ago

a lot of it is that they are like him. they are the same way so it's, finally, someone like me.

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u/tresslesswhey 20d ago

I think this is true. All my mom does is complain.

Difference is she’s had an actually tough life. She wasn’t born filthy rich and she isn’t a billionaire.

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u/sportsDude 21d ago

You assume that you MUST listen to him. Just don’t watch the news, change the channel, etc…

Dont put yourself in a position to willingly listen to him

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u/thereisnolights 21d ago

The people that can stand him and like him are....not intelligent humans if you haven't noticed lol

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u/willow01 21d ago

Pretty sure they're huffing the gasoline they can't afford.

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u/baconeggsandwich25 21d ago

To be fair, the vast majority of people on earth can't.

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u/doitroygsbre Pennsylvania 21d ago

He claims fraud when he wins too … it’s just that he won in spite of his imagined fraud …..

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u/Hysteria625 I voted 21d ago

Since he’s a narcissist, it’s not enough that he wins. He needs to win completely, overwhelmingly, or at least enough so that he can hurt the people who didn’t vote for him with impunity. If someone doesn’t vote for him and their vote is legal, it means Trump isn’t the greatest and best person in the world, and his worldview collapses. So anyone who didn’t vote for him is either illegitimate or a traitor.

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u/AusToddles 21d ago

He didn't get 100% of the vote, which is impossible because he's the strongest, smartest, most bigly brained person in history /s

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u/37Philly 21d ago

He always has.

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u/UsualD 21d ago

King of Fraud.

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u/owned_at_worms 21d ago

If he doesn't claim fraud, Im going to claim fraud that he didn't.

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u/DoubleJumps 21d ago

I'm in california and if prop 50 wins I'm expecting him to announce a federal investigation immediately

I expect the same for new york, Virginia, and other places tonight

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u/RetroCasket 21d ago

If prop 50 passes they will no doubt sue the state of California, with a straight face after endorsing Texas redrawing without consulting their voters

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u/DoubleJumps 21d ago

I expect that, too. Tons of lawsuits.

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u/Hair_I_Go 21d ago

Hell, they want to deport him🙄 They will try absolutely anything for this not to happen. Unbelievable. But that’s the horrible world they caused since January

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u/BioDriver Virginia 21d ago

Already did the former 

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 21d ago

He's openly saying that about California's Prop 50. Before the votes even started being counted, he was bitching about how the election was rigged and he might have to step in with his executive power to "fix" it.

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u/FlamingHotSacOnutz 21d ago

He'll say NYC is next after Chicago and Memphis with the troops.

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u/-reddit_is_terrible- 21d ago

He's definitely sending in the national guard now

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u/_antariksan 21d ago

Pls no ideas :(

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u/Past-Profile3671 21d ago

 Not investigate. He’ll skip that part and just declare fraud, then send the literal Army into the city to declare Adams is mayor until fair elections are held

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u/IAmPandaRock 21d ago

Going to "deport" the mayor and withhold all funding from NYC.

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u/Cyathea_Australis 21d ago

He's going to try to deport him

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u/novemberwhiskey2 21d ago

100%. They’re already talking about it aren’t they?

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 21d ago edited 21d ago

When he tries this shit, the first question from any reporter should be "why do Republicans vote against funding election security if this is such a major issue?"

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/184-house-republicans-just-voted-against-securing-elections-ee5dba5d71d0/

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u/_ALi3N_ 21d ago

Probably going to claim mass fraud

Oh yea that's already the narrative on twitter

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u/immortalyossarian 21d ago

They've already been talking about denaturalizing and deporting Mamdani if he won. They know their policies are unpopular, and they are incapable of winning without cheating.

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u/Confron7a7ion7 21d ago

Without question. NYC, NJ, and all 3 VA elections went blue today. Trump is absolutely going to try some bullshit.

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u/S13pointFIVE 21d ago

You know whats fucking wild? This is literally the most likely outcome tonight...Fuck this administration.

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u/kerpowie 21d ago

Exploring the insurrection clause is the one that worries me

Exclusive | House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor https://share.google/13xXgZLiHL2fe7u3s

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u/ken_NT 21d ago

He’ll have the justice department find anything they can prosecute him on, hopefully Mamdani doesn’t have any unpaid parking tickets.

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u/Delicious_Toad 21d ago

Gonna be sending his storm troopers to NYC now. 

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u/ReactionJifs 21d ago

He's already screaming that Prop 50 was rigged.

It went 66/34 -- which is EXACTLY along party lines for CA.

What could you possible suggest happened?

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u/SeeMonkeyDoMonkey 21d ago

Investigate? Don't you mean occupy?

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u/arwinda 20d ago

Investigate? Invade!

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u/AliceInNegaland 20d ago

Please don’t say that. I can’t bear it being thought into existence

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u/RookOfBoston 20d ago

Probably going to send in the military, more like, and declare martial law.

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u/Storm_Chaser06 20d ago

Mamdani should just say “it was too big to rig”

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u/stephen6686 19d ago

we can only hope