New York chose ‘courage over fear’, AOC says at Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony – live

Congressmember delivered opening remarks at city hall, noting that Mamdani is the city’s first Muslim mayor

Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji appearing on stage for his inauguration ceremony earlier.

New York is a place that “a young immigrant democrat socialist Muslim can be bold enough to run and brave enough to win,” he says, “not by abandoning conviction, but by standing firmly within it.”