Why Zohran Mamdani Won

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald analyzes the political rise of Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City. Greenwald highlights Mamdani’s unconventional campaign style and  argues that Mamdani’s approach reflects a broader shift in U.S. politics away from elite narratives and toward the material concerns of ordinary voters.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 17th of October, 2025.

To read the transcript of the interview: Why Zohran Mamdani Won

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.