Election results: Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor, Mikie Sherrill wins NJ governor

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani told "Good Morning America" on Wednesday that he would not be "intimidated" by potential threats from President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard to the city.

"His threats are inevitable," Mamdani said. "This has nothing to do a safety, it has to do with intimidation."

"If it was safety, President Trump would be threatening to deploy the National Guard to the top 10 states of crime, eight out of which are all Republican-led," Mamdani added. "But because of that party he won't actually be doing it."

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appeared Wednesday on "Good Morning America."

The 34-year-old democratic socialist was propelled to victory amid a record turnout in New York City. More than 2 million voters turned out on Tuesday -- the first time a mayoral election crossed that threshold since 1969.

Mamdani will become the city's youngest mayor since 1892 and the first Muslim to hold the office.

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Take a look at the winner of each election district in the race for New York City mayor:

Shortly after Zohran Mamdani won the primary in June, Trump took to social media to call the 33-year-old "a 100% Communist Lunatic." Trump and other Republicans have continued to refer to Mamdani as a "communist" throughout the election cycle.

Mamdani has emphasized that he is not a communist, including in October on ABC's "The View," where he told co-hosts that he was a democratic socialist.

Democratic socialism is a political movement that calls for the establishment of a decentralized socialist economic system within a democratically run political system. It differs from socialism, which is sometimes associated with communism and does not necessarily include a democratic form of governance.

Because of that, socialism is often used to describe the political and economic system of countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, and the term can politically alienate some voters due to its association with these countries.

However, a recent Gallup poll found that attitudes toward socialism may be changing among left-leaning Americans, with 66% of Democrats now having a positive view of socialism, up from 50% in 2010.

Read more about how Zohran Mamdani rose to power as a democratic socialist here.

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani's projected victory as New York City's first Muslim and South Asian mayor marks a historic moment, that could galvanize those communities, some voters and experts tell ABC News.

"It is going to make a big difference for our people -- South Indians, Muslims, people who are immigrants like me. They will also think there's a place for them in this country," Asif Mahmood, a Democratic bundler who helped fundraise for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris and ran for Congress himself, told ABC News ahead of Election Day.

Some Democratic strategists have pointed out that South Asian and Arab Muslims in the U.S., many of whom immigrated post-1965, have historically not been invested in politics. Asian-Americans in general have also been underrepresented in polling and research, even in recent election years, ABC News previously reported.

But Mamdani's catapult into the national spotlight could help turn the tide, with members of those communities mobilizing in large numbers on his behalf throughout his campaign.

In fact, South Asian voter turnout in the 2025 NYC primary election increased by about 40% compared to the 2021 primary, according to data from research firm L2 provided to ABC News.

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