Zohran Mamdani is one of the first Democratic candidates to successfully leverage Donald Trump’s focus on cost of living, explains a political strategist.
- Lecturer, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Trump’s $45 million parade in Washington, DC, underscores his love-hate relationship with New York, the city where ticker-tape parades have traditionally honored America’s victories and heroes.
Eric Adams, the New York mayor facing an indictment that could end his career and send him to jail, long boasted that his swagger was good for the city. But swagger doesn’t make a good mayor.
Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking and profane political mastermind first elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964.
From the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow South, Willie Mays rose to the height of fame and respect as perhaps the country’s greatest baseball player – one who inspired a president.
Most Americans knew the late Dianne Feinstein as a US senator. But for San Francisco voters, she will forever be remembered as the woman who stepped in at a tragic moment to lead the city.
Concerns are growing about Dianne Feinstein’s ability to finish out her Senate term. That won’t dim the accomplishments of her extraordinary career, writes a scholar of San Francisco politics.
Trump was the first US president from New York City since Teddy Roosevelt, but he was never a hometown hero. City residents celebrated after Biden’s win and again after Trump’s conviction.
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