Free buses, more housing, taxing the rich: how Zohran Mamdani has gone viral in the New York mayor’s race

He was 30 points behind former governor Andrew Cuomo just months ago, but now he's surging in the contest to lead the largest US city

Zohran Mamdani trailed Andrew Cuomo, the frontrunner to be the next New York City mayor, by 30 points just a few months ago.

Now, just ahead of the Democratic primary on Tuesday, the 33-year-old democratic socialist has bridged the gap with Cuomo, a politician so of the establishment that a giant bridge north of New York literally bears his last name.