You know how New York City Dem mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is a “radical Islamist. He’s a Jew hater. He’s an antisemite” in the words of angry little gnome Mark Levin, for example?
Some Jews disagree. And, as you can tell by the headline, they’re not the liberal, secular-ish types either. The faction of the very clannish Satmar sect loyal to Grand Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum (and not his brother Zalmen Leib Teitelbaum… it’s a long story) is arguably the largest organized Jewish voting bloc in Gotham. They are VERY reliable and turn out for who they’re told to turn out for.
And their leadership endorsed Zohran Mamdani, Forward reports on another L for disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had lobbied the chieftains for the nod. It’s difficult to quantify how many ballots this is worth because while the number of Satmar in New York City is about 80,000, nobody’s really sure how many are on Team Aaron. The national Jewish political news outlet doesn’t fixate too much on the mathematical significance, possibly because it doesn’t really matter at this point. And that they’re 2-for-2 in picking the winners of the last two open mayoral elections.