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Voters in the largest city in America are choosing a Democratic nominee for mayor via ranked-choice voting. The crowded field is led by former governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from the state’s top office four years ago following sexual harassment allegations; state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who snagged key endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York); Comptroller Brad Lander, who made headlines when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an immigration hearing last week; and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.

This is a ranked-choice primary – only first-choice votes will be tabulated on election night. Final vote calculations will be released July 1 and updated weekly until all ballots are counted. Republican Curtis Sliwa is uncontested in his primary.

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    . In practice, that will never happen as long as “Israel” occupies Palestine.

    I think he already knows this and his position is to not do any “no nos” and to at most lie by omission rather than lie outright. Would he have won if he didn’t play that game anyway? Tough to say at this point; perhaps it would have been closer but I think he actually would have but I don’t think zohran thought he would have at the time

    imagine if everyone in the west bank/gaza and the diapora could vote to elect seats into the knesset… it would never happen… but we could just advocate for it anyway and use it as a shield to beat the zios back with and what can they say? this would never happen but if it actually did I could only assume the knesset would at some point vote to change the name of the state to palestine.<---- no liberal zionist actually desires to allow this to happen but zohrans position was to exist in this weird position of thought so he didn’t have to sacrifice his views on the question of Palestinians while still being able to stay stuff like “israel has a right to exist with equal rights” .

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      Yeah I absolutely agree which is why I said it’s only a technical difference, not to mention it simply doesn’t matter as mayor of NYC. He’s a good lad.