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The daily grind of governing, after all, doesn’t offer the same excitement as a rocket-ship campaign
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Mamdani’s approval rating among Big Apple voters sits at a stunning 69 percent, and he’s become among the most influential figures on the American left; he’s also been described, by his harshest critics, as a dangerous radical whose politics threaten the city he’s been elected to lead.
Key facts
- In October 2025, weeks before his historic election win, WIRED sat down with Mamdani for an interview at his campaign office
- If you think you had a wild year, imagine how New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani must feel
- Mamdani, then about to turn 34, radiated in their first conversation with what the reporter can best describe as a supernatural electricity
- New Yorkers hooted and hollered at the candidate who, seemingly overnight, had made the mundanity of local politics feel like a cultural revolution
Summary
If you think you had a wild year, imagine how New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani must feel. In October 2025, weeks before his historic election win, WIRED sat down with Mamdani for an interview at his campaign office. This was a man, after all, who’d pulled off a stunning political feat, rising from being an unknown to becoming the mayoral front-runner in a matter of months. Mamdani, then about to turn 34, radiated in their first conversation with what the reporter can best describe as a supernatural electricity. Fast-forward one year, and the Mamdani electricity is still there—it might be a little bit more tired.