{"id":198424,"date":"2025-12-13T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=198424"},"modified":"2025-12-13T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:59:14","slug":"underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=198424","title":{"rendered":"Underdogs, take notes: Zohran Mamdani just broke the system (and won)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget everything you knew about New York politics: Zohran Mamdani just flipped the script.<br \/>\nArmed with working-class solidarity, digital fluency, and meme-literate storytelling, the 34-year-old Queens Assemblyman didn\u2019t just beat Andrew Cuomo \u2014 he made history. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Mamdani emerged as the city\u2019s first Muslim and South Asian mayor&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1953490\/underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget everything you knew about New York politics: Zohran Mamdani just flipped the script. Armed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/198424-underdogs-take-notes-zohran-mamdani-just-broke-the-system-and-won.webp",300,180,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}