Mamdani will not be able to become US President even if he is elected mayor

Hakikul Islam Khokon,
Zohran Mamdani's campaign following his victory for mayor of New York has been compared to Barack Obama's historic run to become the first black president. But can Mamdani follow in those footsteps to the White House? The answer is no. Mamdani became a US citizen in 2018, but was not a citizen at birth, which is required under current law for a person to become president or vice president.

Mamdani was born in Uganda in 1991 to Indian parents, none of whom were US citizens at the time, and immigrated to the United States at the age of seven.

Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoral election with the highest number of votes in 60 years. After 91 percent of votes were counted, Mamdani got more than 10 lakh (50.4 percent) votes. His main challenger, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, received about 850,000 (41.6 percent) votes. And the Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa got 146 thousand 137 votes (7.1 percent). In other words, Mamdani won by a margin of about one and a half lakh votes over the nearest rival.

At last count, Mamdani received 1.1 million 36 thousand 51 votes, the most votes received by any New York mayoral candidate since 1965. Earlier in 1965, Republican candidate John Lindsey received 1.1 million 49 thousand 106 votes.

According to city records, the 1965 tally was also lower than the previous two elections. Democrat candidate Robert F. Wagner Jr. received more than 1.2 million votes in the 1961 election and over 1.5 million in the 1957 election, the highest vote ever recorded for a New York mayoral election