New York City Democrats last night picked a Muslim socialist to be their next mayor, sending Andrew Cuomo packing in their Democrat primary.

Cuomo is said to be contemplating a run in the general as an independent.

Here’s the news:

Enjoying a surge of support from progressive and younger voters, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is a big step closer to becoming the first Muslim mayor of the nation’s most populous city.

His opponent in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saw the writing on the wall Tuesday night and conceded, telling supporters at an election night gathering that Mamdani “won.”

Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member from Queens who is originally from Uganda, topped the former three-term governor and nine other candidates in a crowded primary field in an election that was determined by ranked-choice voting. He will be considered the frontrunner in November’s general election in the heavily blue city.

As the unofficial results of the first round of voting trickled in, in which Mamdani was leading, Cuomo told his supporters that his campaign would be “having conversations” about how to proceed to help both the Democratic Party and New York City moving forward.

“Now I want to look at all the numbers, as they come in and this ranked choice voting and, what the numbers actually say and do,” Cuomo added.

A Cuomo campaign aide, following the former governor’s speech, said Cuomo was leaving the door open for a possible run as a third party or independent candidate in November.

“I want to look at all the numbers as they come in and analyze the rank choice voting. I will then consult with my colleagues on what is the best path for me to help the City of New York, as I have already qualified to run for mayor on an independent line in November,” Cuomo said in a statement.

Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo said that Cuomo told her after conceding that he is not ruling out running in November.

Even though Cuomo came in second, he’s still toast in this stupid ranked choice voting system because Mamdani campaigned with Brad Lander, so that Landers voters would chose Mamdani as their second choice. Lander got 11% of the votes last night, and when you add that to Mamdani’s 43 percent, he should quickly get to 50% as the rounds continue.

The presumptive Democratic nominee cross-endorsed with Lander in a successful attempt to consolidate support against Cuomo within the ranked-choice voting style. Mamdani and Lander campaigned together in the weeks leading up to primary day.

Their combined totals would be enough to topple Cuomo as ranked-choice voting rounds get underway, per the Board of Elections’ unofficial tally Tuesday night. According to The Associated Press, ranked-choice tabulations won’t start until July 1, so it could be some time before the results are finalized.

Karol Markowicz said Cuomo acted like an entitled candidate and ran a horrible campaign:

They’re all terrible candidates, but leave it to NYCers to pick the worst one to be their mayor. They deserve everything they get if Republicans can’t defeat him in the primary.