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Zohran Mamdani has stormed onto the national political scene by winning New York City’s mayoral election. Mamdani was unknown to most New Yorkers when he announced his run for mayor roughly a year ago. But that was before the state lawmaker from Queens won over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic primary. The 34-year-old completed his stunning political ascension by again vanquishing Cuomo, as well as Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, in the Tuesday general election. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents, becomes the city’s first Muslim, first African-born and first South Asian mayor — not to mention its youngest mayor in more than a century.