Mamdani’s new era of NYC politics starts with Democratic Party insiders

Zohran Mamdani vowed to “flip the web page” on New York Metropolis’s outdated guard Democrats throughout his victory speech Tuesday night time. However inside lower than 24 hours, New York Metropolis’s mayor-elect introduced a transition workforce made up of individuals with ties to the administrations of Invoice de Blasio, Eric Adams, Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden.

“Let tonight be the final time I say something [Andrew Cuomo’s] identify as we flip the web page on a politics that abandons the numerous and is accountable solely to a couple,” Mamdani mentioned Tuesday night time as he touted a brand new political order for New York Metropolis at his victory speech on the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. The following morning, Mamdani appointed an all-female transition workforce, consisting of 4 co-chairs and an government director.

The co-chairs are Maria Torres-Springer, a former high aide beneath former Mayors de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg and soon-to-be former Mayor Adams; Lina Khan, chair of the Biden administration’s Federal Commerce Fee; Melanie Hartzog, a former New York Metropolis finances director who served as deputy mayor for Well being and Human Providers beneath de Blasio; and Grace Bonilla, a former Bloomberg and de Blasio staffer who has been appointed to guide the previous’s job drive on racial fairness and inclusion. Elana Leopold, a former senior aide to de Blasio, was tapped as government director of the transition workforce.

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Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani for remark however didn’t obtain a response in time for publication.

Former New York Mayor Invoice de Blasio (left), former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (middle) and incoming former mayor Eric Adams. (Getty Pictures)

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“The polls have solely simply closed, and the brand new mayor is already breaking one in every of his key guarantees to shake up the established order and usher in a brand new day. New York Metropolis started a downward spiral beneath the de Blasio administration, and now a few of its key gamers are returning to the facilities of energy,” mentioned Republican strategist Colin Reed.

“And former FTC Chair Lina Khan turned synonymous together with her hostility towards corporations giant and small through the Biden administration and one of many leaders of Bidenomics.”

Khan specifically has been accused of sidelining profession employees in favor of recent blood from a gaggle of dark-money nonprofits, coinciding with a powerful antitrust technique that mirrored the group’s targets. The FTC, beneath Khan’s management, credited people from these nonprofits with serving to to craft insurance policies and messages in posts on its web site and in a report back to Congress in 2022.

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Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-elect of New York, middle, accompanied by members of his transition workforce, from left to proper Elana Leopold, Transition Government Director; Melanie Hartzog, transition co-chair; Maria Torres-Springer, transition co-chair; Grace Bonilla, transition co-chair; and Lina Khan, transition co-chair, speaks with members of the media at Flushing Meadows Corona Park within the Queens borough of New York on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Adam Grey/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

Mamdani, a member of the New York State Meeting who ran for mayor of New York Metropolis, defeated former Empire State Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa within the Large Apple’s mayoral contest.

Throughout Mamdani’s victory speech Tuesday night time, the mayor-elect additionally denounced company pursuits and advised his supporters that New Yorkers have been betrayed by elected officers who care extra about their very own enrichment.

“We refuse to allow them to dictate the principles of the sport any longer,” he mentioned. “They will play by the identical guidelines as the remainder of us.”

Mamdani’s election victory was cheered by Alex Soros, the son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has helped finance left-wing campaigns stretching from prosecutors to federal elections. In 2022, the youthful Soros succeeded his father as chairman of the board of administrators of the large $25 billion Open Society Foundations by way of which he directs his activism.

Alex Soros, son of billionaire megadonor George Soros, congratulates Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on his election victory in New York Metropolis. (X/@AlexSoros)

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Alex Soros’s help for Mamdani isn’t any shock: the Open Society Foundations have reportedly donated $37 million over the previous decade to left-wing teams that promoted Mamdani’s nomination this 12 months, just like the Working Households Get together, the New York Publish reported in July.

Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman and Emma Colton contributed to this report.