They’re out of the blue the Bogie and Bacall of nationwide politics.
They’ve bought all of it, which has shocked the Democratic Social gathering.
And whereas they will not be headed to Key Largo, like iconic Hollywood stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, they simply may find yourself in Gracie Mansion.
Bogie & Bacall do New York, and the Republicans find it irresistible.
Democrats not a lot.
It may even be worse for Democrats, although, in that the left-wing lunatics, if elected, may turn into the Bonnie & Clyde of New York and never Bogie & Bacall.
Gracie Mansion is the house of the mayor of New York, presently occupied by Eric Adams, who left the Democratic Social gathering to run for re-election as an Impartial.
Now Adams may very well be changed by radical socialist Zohran Mamdani, 33, the upstart Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, who’s taking part in Bogie, to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Bacall.

Like Bacall, who equipped thriller and magic to assist make Bogart a film star, AOC equipped the power and magic to make Mamdani a political star.
The 2 campaigned as if they have been made for one another, though Mamdani is married, however to not AOC, 35, who’s single. It labored.
They not solely shocked former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who campaigned as if election was a mere formality, however shocked the common left-wing Democratic Social gathering institution as nicely.
Mamdani and AOC dazzled. Her endorsement and bodily marketing campaign contribution pushed Mamdani excessive. He most likely couldn’t have gained the first with out her.
They merely ran circles round Cuomo and everyone else with a spirited and vigorous marketing campaign that attracted the votes of younger folks.
These voters appeared oblivious to the truth that his marketing campaign guarantees, if fulfilled, would flip the nation’s greatest metropolis into Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and even Kampala, Uganda, the place Mamdani was born.
If elected, Mamdani, who doesn’t look kindly on Jews—to say the least–would turn into the primary Muslim mayor of New York, which has the largest Jewish inhabitants within the nation.
As mayor, Mamdani has promised to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Netanyahu dares go to New York. (Possibly Netanyahu may vow to arrest Mamdani if he got here to Tel Aviv to log on.)
Mamdani got here to the U.S. at age seven along with his dad and mom and have become a naturalized citizen in 2018. His father Mahmood is a professional Hamas, anti-Israel professor at (naturally) Columbia, the place the youthful Mamdani participated in anti-Israeli protests.
His mom Mira Nair is a filmmaker, which most likely accounts for Mamdani’s profitable interplay—like AOC–with cameras of all makes and sizes.
The truth is, he and AOC campaigning collectively have been handled like film stars in a Hollywood script. They have been so good on the stage that the nonsense they espoused, like authorities grocery shops and taxing white folks extra, didn’t matter. It simply regarded and sounded good. That they had vibes.
Regardless of all of the socialist gibberish he and AOC babble about, Mamdani has a superb probability of turning into mayor and AOC of turning into a U.S. senator.
Mamdani would be the solely Democrat working within the last election as each Mayor Eric Adams and Cuomo can be working as independents and assured to separate the vote. The fourth candidate is Republican Curtis Silwa, the veteran creator of the Guardian Angels Basis.
On the similar time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who rose from obscurity to turn into a nationwide political chief, has veteran New York U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer involved.
When he seeks re-election in 2026 to the U.S. Senate, the place he has served since 1999 after 18 years within the Home, he can be 76 years outdated.
AOC in her third time period within the Home, can be 37.
Schumer can be working with the wind in his face in opposition to a candidate who has the wind, and extra, at her again.
Bogie & Bacall, or Bonnie & Clyde, if you happen to favor, are actually the leaders of the Democratic Social gathering—or what’s left of it.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas may be reached at peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.