The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) appear to be lining up to clinch Zohran Mamdani’s New York State Assembly seat after the 34-year-old stunned the political landscape and will become the city’s next mayor in January. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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A DSA win in this race would mark another step in the group’s growing influence over New York politics.
Abdelhamid previously mounted a 2022 primary challenge against then-Rep. Carolyn Maloney, whose district included both the Upper East Side and western Queens. She dropped out of the race after the district’s boundaries were redrawn to exclude Queens, the outlet reported.
Abdelhamid is deeply involved with the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) community in Astoria and helped lead a successful push for the state to collect more accurate demographic data on MENA communities, per City & State.
She also founded a women’s self-defense organization called Malikah and previously told the outlet that she grew up in Astoria, in a part of the neighborhood nicknamed "Little Egypt."
Sources told the outlet that Moreno will likely receive the DSA endorsement.
Zohran Mamdani currently represents Assembly District 36, the western Queens district that covers the Astoria neighborhood. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)
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She said she changed her mind because of what she described as the Trump administration’s "rising authoritarianism" and a need to deliver for working families in her district. Her top legislative priority is free and universal child care.
Moreno’s profile shows her participating in several pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the city.
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