A group of democratic socialists gathered in a corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Park in south Minneapolis on Tuesday with glossies for their preferred mayoral, City Council and Park Board candidates stacked on a picnic table.

Zohran Mamdani clinched victory Tuesday in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, cementing an upset that already has shaken national politics.

Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. A new vote count Tuesday under the city’s ranked choice voting system confirmed the progressive legislator’s stunning upset of former Gov.