Former DNC vice chair David Hogg, left, celebrated Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win in New York City on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company; Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"Having a clear message, asking them what you can do for them and wanting to genuinely serve them and actually delivering on that, does work," Hogg told Fox News Digital.
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New York City's mayoral race exposed an ideological and generational divide within the Democratic Party.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from office in 2021 amid multiple controversies, including several sexual harassment allegations which he has denied, was staged to land his political comeback this year.
But plan was interrupted when Mamdani shocked the political establishment and won the Democratic primary in June.
A self-described democratic socialist, Mamdani will be New York City's youngest mayor in more than a century. His campaign focused on affordability, vowing to deliver fast and free buses, free childcare, rent freezes and city-run grocery stores to New York City.
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani accepts an endorsement from the United Bodegas of America in the Bronx, New York City, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
Hogg was ousted as DNC vice chair earlier this year following a procedural challenge to his candidacy, which came on the heels of announcing his outside political action committee, Leaders We Deserve, would invest $20 million into primary challenges against incumbent Democrats he claimed were "asleep at the wheel."
"While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote," Hogg said in May.
Hundreds of supporters celebrated Mamdani's win at the Brooklyn Paramount theater on Tuesday night, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Attorney General Letitia James, actress Cynthia Nixon, anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil and Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza.
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Mamdani will be the first millennial mayor of the nation's largest city. He made strategic use of social media throughout his campaign, including TikTok, to build a recognizable brand and motivate a swath of low-propensity voters.
Like President Donald Trump in 2024, Mamdani centered his mayoral campaign on affordability, vowing to deliver a New York City that voters could actually afford to live in.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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