Zohran Mamdani shows a way to beat Trump

At 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, the press crowd was beginning to gather in the cool predawn darkness outside a high school in Queens. At this time the other day, Zohran Mamdani was crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and gathering a crowd of supporters as she walked to her final campaign press conference in front of City Hall.

Although the voting booth has just opened, Mamdani will not be here to vote with her husband in the upstairs gym for several hours, by which time photographers from international news services and Australia’s own ABC will have arrived from Washington.