With New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary only days away, voters in the Big Apple are considering electing a true socialist to run America’s largest city, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

While any politician elected to city-wide office in New York City will tilt leftward, none have pushed the expansive government control over private enterprise like Zohran Mamdani. A two-term state assemblyman from Astoria in Queens, Mamdani has experienced a dramatic rise in the polls the last two weeks and has put the city’s more centrist Democrats on edge.

A self labeled “democratic socialist,” Mamdani has proposed free bus rides, a $30 minimum wage and city owned grocery stores. Critics are concerned that if enacted, his policies would push the limits of what businesses can endure, noting the punishing results of California’s minimum wage increase on fast food workers; higher prices and fewer jobs.

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