{"id":39239,"date":"2025-04-19T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/zohran-mamdani-represents-the-future-new-york-socialist-riding-high-in-bid-to-be-mayor\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:55:07","slug":"zohran-mamdani-represents-the-future-new-york-socialist-riding-high-in-bid-to-be-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/zohran-mamdani-represents-the-future-new-york-socialist-riding-high-in-bid-to-be-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York\u2019: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew Cuomo<\/p>\n<p>Can a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York?<\/p>\n<p>Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assembly \u00admember in Queens, has been the surprise package in the Democratic primary and is now poised to take on the frontrunner in the race, ex-state governor Andrew Cuomo, who is mounting a political comeback after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/10\/andrew-cuomo-resigns-sexual-harassment-intimidation\">forced from office in the face of a series of sexual harassment claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/19\/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-new-york-city-mayor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew Cuomo Can a 33-year-old cricket-playing socialist, who wants to freeze rent, make city transport free and once aspired to be a rapper win an already turbulent election to become the next mayor of New York? Zohran &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York\u2019: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/zohran-mamdani-represents-the-future-new-york-socialist-riding-high-in-bid-to-be-mayor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York\u2019: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}