Voters in New York City are going to the polls to elect a new mayor. Election officials report record early voting in the mayoral race, with over 700,000 ballots already cast. The contest — alongside gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey — is seen as a test for both major parties ahead of next year’s midterms. Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist known for his criticism of Israel, is favored to win after defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primaries. Cuomo, now running as an independent with an unusual endorsement from Donald Trump, faces an uphill battle as Mamdani’s lead narrows. With analysis from Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Senior Advisor at the Bertelsmann foundation in Berlin, and Mike Cowburn, research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Science at Zeppelin University.
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