After Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory, the Democratic Establishment is mobilizing to sabotage his campaign.
Top Democrats including Chuck Schumer are refusing to endorse Mamdani — even though he’s the Democratic nominee, and behind closed doors, billionaire Democratic donors are lining up behind disgraced Mayor Eric Adams who announced he’s running as an independent against Mamdani in November.
We’ve seen this playbook before: In 2021, establishment insiders sabotaged India Walton’s mayoral campaign in Buffalo by backing a corporate-funded independent. They are trying to do it again — and we have to stop them.
For months, pundits dismissed Mamdani as championing an agenda that was too radical or too fringe, and the party’s entrenched leaders poured enormous resources—billionaire cash, political insiders, and PAC-funded attack ads—into trying to stop him. And immediately this morning, the attacks continued:
Our Revolution didn’t just endorse Mamdani, our organizers poured calls and texts into the city and pounded the pavement to get every voter to the polls. On Election Day, we canvassed ALL FIVE BOROUGHS from 6AM to 9PM, when polls closed. And it paid off!
We are in a generational battle for the soul of the Democratic Party against establishment Democrats who have a track record of refusing to embrace the progressive agenda needed to defeat Trump and build a better future for all Americans.
As Bernie Sanders wrote in a powerful opinion piece in the Guardian, the Democratic Party is at a crossroads: it can learn the lessons of Mamdani’s campaign or it can continue to depend upon billionaire donors and out-of-touch campaign consultants. It’s clear which road Schumer and Co. are taking.
Bernie knows all too well what happens when the Democratic Establishment mobilizes against you, betraying voters to pander to corporate elites and billionaire donors threatened by true progressive change.
For months, billionaires and party elites poured money and political muscle into stopping Mamdani. But voters chose him anyway, demanding a bold progressive future.
Now, the same insiders who lost at the ballot box are conspiring to undermine him – and if we don’t immediately raise the alarm and rally to Mamdani’s side, they could succeed — just like they did in Buffalo. We can’t let them do it in NYC.
When we organize, we win.
The Our Revolution Team