“MAMDANI WATCH” LAUNCHED

The Catholic League has launched a new project, “Mamdani Watch,” that will track the words and deeds of Zohran Mamdani, the left-wing extremist who will become mayor of New York City on January 1. It is posted on our website. So who voted for this 34- year-old inexperienced left-wing radical? His only true competitor was Andrew Cuomo, the former state governor.

Mamdani won 50.4 percent of the vote; Andrew Cuomo received 41.6 percent; and Curtis Sliwa picked up 7.1 percent.

The two most important demographic segments who voted against him were Jews and Catholics. Jews voted for Cuomo over Mamdani by a margin of 63 percent to 33 percent; Catholics split the vote 53 to 33 percent, respectively. Among those with no religious affiliation—who are second in size to Catholics—Mamdani won 52 percent of them.

Mamdani walloped Cuomo with the two least sophisticated segments of the voting population, namely first-time voters and young people. He won 65 percent of the former and 62 percent of voters under 30. The older the voter the more likely he was to vote for Cuomo. No matter, seniors were outdone not only among the youngest voters, middle-age voters also broke for Mamdani.

The socialist led the field among those of every race and ethnicity, save for white voters (Cuomo won by 1 percent). An impressive 62 percent of Asians voted for the man of mixed African and South Asian ancestry. Blacks voted for Mamdani over Cuomo 57 percent to 38 percent, and the split for Latinos was 52 to 39 percent.

Men did not turn out to vote (they are 48 percent of the New York City population but they made up only 44 percent of voters) and they chose Mamdani (50 percent) to Cuomo (41 percent). Women are 52 percent of the NYC population, but they accounted for 55 percent of the voters; 50 percent voted for Mamdani, and 43 percent went for Cuomo. Mamdani creamed the field among young women voters—they are the most radical segment of the electorate— winning an astonishing 84 percent of them.

Mamdani tapped into a lot of economic fears. For example, New Yorkers said that their number-one issue was the cost-of-living, and Mamdani ran on a campaign to make New York “affordable.” Yet it was the affluent— upper-middle class voters not pinched by living expenses—who voted for him in high numbers (some polls said he lost those in the highest income bracket but others called it a dead heat).

Ironically, low income voters wanted nothing to do with him— they voted for Cuomo. Did they sense that Mamdani was a phony who could not deliver on his Alice-in-Wonderland economic policies? If so, perhaps they can give the rest of New Yorkers a reality check and explain why socialism always cripples the poor.

More ironies. Mamdani’s basket of goodies—free bus fare, free child care, a rent freeze—cannot be done without raising taxes. Yet 60 percent of voters said raising taxes will “hurt the economy.”

So is Mamdani being realistic when he sports his budget-busting policies? No. Only 44 percent of voters said his polices are realistic. Cuomo, by contrast, was believable—58 percent said his policies were realistic.

In other words, a majority of New Yorkers voted for a man whom they believe (a) can’t do the job (b) will pursue measures that will hurt the economy, and (c) will promote policies that are unrealistic. Hard to find more irrational voters.

We know from survey data that the poor are more patriotic than middle class and upper-class Americans. Maybe they can run another tutorial for them on this subject. Consider what happened on Veterans Day.

New Yorkers voted for a man who has a very hard time celebrating America’s greatness. He did not march in the New York City Veterans Day Parade, as did the current mayor, Eric Adams. Virtually every mayor in NYC has marched in this parade, but Mamdani did not want to be seen honoring our veterans. His base would not like that. So he shared a meal with veterans in the Bronx.

Patriotic Americans will always be horrified by what happened on 9/11. For Mamdani, the nearly 3,000 who were killed by Islamists are a footnote to what this day means. He sees “Islamophobia” as the number-one problem. “Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion in this city.”

More recently he has said that his aunt was too afraid to wear her hijab in public after 9/11. Besides the fact that she is his cousin, not his aunt, it is striking what really bothers him about that fateful day. To be exact, what radical Muslims did to innocent Americans seems not to bother him as much as alleged incidents of anti-Muslim bias.

Let’s face it. Mamdani is more at home smiling with his friend, Siraj Wahhaj, the Islamist linked to terrorist activity in the U.S. than he is smiling with veterans marching up Fifth Avenue. That says it all.

Our “Mamdani Watch” is being launched because the Marxist Muslim Millionaire is now the new face of the most radical members of the Democratic Party. But don’t worry about him becoming president—he was born in Uganda.