They’re not sold on the socialist. A majority of New Yorkers are uneasy about the possibility that Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will take over City Hall — as a new poll points to a potential mayoral horse race if the firebrand’s opponents thin out the crowded field.

NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has refused to walk back several controversial positions that could hurt the future of the Democratic Party if he's victorious.

Zohran Mamdani is poised to become the Democratic nominee in New York City’s mayoral election, following Andrew Cuomo’s concession.

Zohran Mamdani clinched victory Tuesday in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor and quickly drew more attacks and threats of arrest from President Donald Trump, a Queens native likely to be a central figure in one of this year’s most important contests.

Mamdani won the Democratic primary, NBC News projects, and will face the incumbent, Eric Adams, in the general election. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may keep running, too.

“You ain’t seen nothing yet,” Adams campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro said in a statement. “Starting Thursday, Mayor Adams will be in full swing 24/7 — like no campaign this city has ever seen.” Indeed, in the world of idiosyncratic politicians, New York has a mayor nonpareil.

Less than a month after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, some of Mamdani’s allies are coalescing around another democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic mayor of Minneapolis.

Zohran Mamdani released a video of himself interviewing people on the street in Queens and the Bronx who had voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election the previous week. It was one of the first of the viral posts that propelled him into the spotlight and ultimately helped him all but capture the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York.

Experience is Cuomo’s “number one argument,” said Cynthia Nixon, who lost to Cuomo in the 2018 gubernatorial primary and now backs Mamdani. “It’s one thing if you’ve been in office for a long time and you have a record that you can be proud of. Cuomo has the opposite.”

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described Democratic socialist who won the New York City mayoral Democratic primary election in a surprising upset, fired back at President Donald Trump Tuesday following ...