How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory

[Uncle Joe]

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office in New York City. Mamdani's history-making campaign, grounded in community organizing, propelled the little-known Assembly-member to victory. Candidate Mamdani famously began the campaign polling at just 1% and overcame the intense scrutiny, Islamaphobic attacks, criticism for his support for Palestinian rights, and more. By election day, more than 2 million New Yorkers had cast their votes, a turnout record that hasn't been matched going back more than half a century.

His success is in part due to massive on-the-ground organizing and an operation of more than 104,000 volunteers. “We knew that we wanted it to be very big,” says Tascha Van Auken, field director for Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign. “We prioritized developing leadership and bringing in as many volunteers as possible.”

[IbogaProject]

1. Cuomo while born here was a CarpetBagger

He didn't have a permanent residence in the city, he "traded" his Westchester Residence for his Daughter's Manhatten Apartment. I bet he already traded back or at least split for upstate.

[Uncle Joe]

2. That's *rump as well

born in the North comes to the South while promoting the Confederacy as a means to divide the nation making it easier for him to rip off the American People including many if not most of his supporters which he outright lied to on numerous subjects.

*rump is a classic 21st century version of a carpet bagger.