Mamdani’s Win and What Comes Next | Right Now With Perry Bacon

Right Now With Perry Bacon · Nov 5, 2025 · 28m

Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election despite an onslaught of commercials attacking him that were funded by New York’s ultrawealthy, including Democratic-leaning figures such as Michael Bloomberg. He also overcame very negative coverage from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post, three of the city’s biggest newspapers. In the latest edition of Right Now, Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, a group that backs progressive candidates across the country, explained how impressive it was for the assemblyman to have defeated the powerful…