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In just a few months, Mamdani, a 34-year-old state assemblyman and Democratic Socialist, has gone from a long-shot fringe candidate to a national figure — securing an upset win in the June primary, where voters 18-29 had the highest turnout of any age group.

Now, on the cusp of Election Day — where polls show him the clear frontrunner over his closest rival, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — Mamdani is counting on that youth coalition to show up again. But his pledge to address rising costs appears to be resonating with young people far outside of the five boroughs. It's a message that many Gen Z and millennials say speaks to their most pressing concerns at a time when many feel hopeless about their leaders and yearn for new voices willing to break with political norms.

"When a candidate is able to speak to the concerns of the populace and validate those concerns … I think that that has a big impact, especially when it comes to young people," said Ruby Belle Booth, who studies young voters for the nonpartisan research organization CIRCLE.

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[–] MrStankov@lemmy.world 186 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Almost like there is a large, unmet demand for leftist politicians at the national level. Hmm, no, couldn't possibly be it.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I don't even know if it's that. I wonder how much of it is just "shit is clearly bad... Let's please just try something different and see if it helps."

We've been doing the exact same stuff for so long and everything gets worse. The current administration's solution is to just go backwards and try the old stuff that didn't work again and see if it will work now somehow.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

wonder how much of it is just "shit is clearly bad... Let's please just try something different and see if it helps."

It's kinda both from how I see things. When Bernie wasn't given a chance by the DNC in the primaries in 2016, the Bernie supporters flocked to vote Trump. The Sanders to Trump pipeline is real. Slavoj Zizek made a great point that people want someone outside of the neoliberal status quo, and Americans got that, but with Trump. Americans are kind of at the crossroads of what they really want.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it seems like the left and right agree that shit needs to change, but the right has been convinced it’s the left’s fault instead of it being the mega-rich.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

When Bernie wasn’t given a chance by the DNC in the primaries in 2016, the Bernie supporters flocked to vote Trump. The Sanders to Trump pipeline is real.

clinton supporters formed a literal PAC to get mccain elected because they hated the idea of a black president that much.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago

its beause bernie pretty much has the same loud mouth charisma as trump, bernie was more palatable, when that dint happen they went to next best things, these are "undecided republicans"

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

the current one, is trying to not release epstein files, plus they want democrats to cave so the republicans can have thier sound bytes on fox to blame the shutdown on them, knowing thier supporters wont research past the headlines they will believe it.

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Historically they make noise but don't actually come out to vote though.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Republicans don't vote for democrats either, but the party keeps courting them anyway.