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Vox is a stead Herndon.
You were in New York City last night covering everything.
Tell me what happened.
Yeah, I was in New York City for the last step of what has been a come from nowhere political story,
a historic moment.
Zoram Amdani, a 34-year-old state assemblyman who, as of two,
three years ago, had very little presence on the,
certainly the national stage and even the state level,
you know, ended the Andrew Cuomo political dynasty and, you know,
is going to become the one of the youngest mayors in New York City's history and the first Muslim mayor in the city's history.
Mamdani really benefited from a huge voter turnout.
There was almost two million voters,