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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a 2025 Pride March on June 29, 2025. (Noam Galai / Getty Images)

The Little-Known Secret About Mamdani's Win: Ranked Choice Voting Gave Him an Edge

By Ole Braatelien July 5, 2025 at 10:00am

Zohran Mamdani’s success in New York’s mayoral Primary on Tuesday has many conservatives talking about the burgeoning threat of socialism in American politics.

But as one conservative commentator observed, too few are talking about the troubling voting mechanism that helped secure Mamdani his victory.

“New York loving Muslims and Commies and Commie Muslims isn’t how you wound up with Zohran Mamdani. Ranked Choice Voting is,” the conservative YouTuber known as RazörFist wrote on the social media platform X.

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Ole Braatelien

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Ole Braatelien, a writer for The Western Journal since 2022, earned his bachelor's from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.