With slim majority, Mamdani takes over a divided city

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The 34-year-old democratic socialist -- set to be the city's first Muslim mayor -- entered Wednesday facing both celebration and unease.
45% : And his effort to peel Republican voters off of Sliwa paid off: He won huge swaths of Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens home to conservative voters apoplectic about Mamdani's expected victory. Polling before the race and exit polls conducted immediately after found a consistent trend: a significant number of Cuomo supporters were voting for the former governor not because they liked his ideas, but because he was the best hope to stop Mamdani, a grim statistic emphasizing just how off-putting the democratic socialist has been to many New Yorkers.
41% : And he sought to sooth Jewish New Yorkers, many of whom remain deeply angered by his rhetoric around Israel, both during his campaign and immediately after Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks.
30% : The democratic socialist explained that animosity by pointing to an avalanche of outside spending against him.

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