New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges Donald Trump in victory speech as Democrats win key US election races – as it happened

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at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown Manhattan

There's a couple of hundred Cuomo supporters at his watch party now. I just saw a man down a bottle of Stella Artois. No sign of Cuomo yet. Among the attenders is Suzanne Miller, a realtor who volunteered for the Cuomo campaign. She said she is 50-50" about his chances of winning. Miller said she was nervous because of Zohran Mamdani's energetic closing few days of the campaign.