The new power broker: How Zohran Mamdani muscled NYC’s Democratic establishment

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — Outside Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s primary night party, four men on the sidewalk were dressed in full neon sequins, trying to get the party started. Inside, the bar had barely opened. Espaillat spent 20 years trying to get to Washington and another 10 years in Congress. He arrived