The Australia Institute

You may have seen some of the breathless reporting that has happened in response to Democratic New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s political run (which is ongoing).

It’s an another example of how legacy media is out of step with what is happening on the ground. The voices who have been elevated in the political bun fight would give people who only receive their news from old-school sources the impression that Mamdani was only receiving support from ‘radical’ leftists, and somehow managed to hijack the race. And yet, here is the data – support across the board when it comes to young people, including young Jewish voters (which is relevant here because of how many in the media and political establishment tried to paint Mamdani as being out-of-step with Jewish voters (particularly since he said he would not visit Israel if elected mayor – that instead he would stay in New York City and deal with NYC issues – the only Democratic candidate to do so)