With a rent freeze, free buses and universal healthcare among his hugely popular campaign promises, Zohran Mamdani's meteoric rise to frontrunner in the New York mayoral election has been propelled by a package of radical policy proposals. We ask Lindsey Cormack, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, whether US Democrats should model their campaigns on Mamdani's. 

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