> Zohran reminds me so much of the former District Attorney of San Francisco, Chesa Boudin

As a former New Yorker who grew up in the Bay Area, I disagree.

Chesa had zero public experience prior to his run, and he never moderated his position, not even after being ousted from office. In the end, he was elected by fewer than 90,000 people [1]. (Smaller than the population of Manhattan’s Chinatown [2].)

Mamdani has some experience as a city legislator. And he moderated between his primary and the general, the latter which he won with more than a million votes [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_San_Francisco_District_At...

[2] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/manhattan-neighborhoods-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_ele...