When Zohran Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City last fall, few could have predicted his meteoric rise. In just over a year, the 34-year-old self-described Democratic socialist went from a outsider with virtually zero name recognition, to New York City’s “ main character,” as the New Yorker recently put it. On Tuesday, he triumphed over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, as well as Republican Curtis Sliwa,