Florida sheriff welcomes New Yorkers after Mamdani win: 'It can be the beginning of a new life'

A Florida sheriff is urging New York City residents and NYPD officers unhappy with the results of Tuesday’s mayoral predetermination to determination southbound to the Sunshine State.

"To each New Yorkers, if you're looking for a amended prime of life, from education, to the outdoors, to the beauteous weather, cheque retired Volusia County. We are unfastened for business. Tonight's predetermination is not the end. It tin beryllium the opening of a caller life," Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote connected Facebook.

Chitwood besides invited NYPD officers and concern owners seeking a "safe, increasing community" to see relocating to Volusia County — astir 30 minutes from Daytona Beach — describing it arsenic a spot wherever instrumentality enforcement is "appreciated by the community," "supported by the elected officials" and a "fantastic place" to rise a family.

Sheriff Mike Chitwood welcomed New Yorkers to Florida pursuing Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win. (Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani was elected arsenic New York City’s 111th mayor, defeating erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa successful 1 of Tuesday’s astir intimately watched elections. Mamdani, 34, is 1 of the youngest radical to pb the Big Apple and its archetypal Muslim mayor.

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"New York, contiguous you person delivered. A mandate for change. ​​A mandate for a caller benignant of politics. A mandate for a metropolis we tin afford. And a mandate for a authorities that delivers precisely that," said Mamdani successful his predetermination nighttime triumph speech.

"To each New Yorker — whether you voted for me, for 1 of my opponents, oregon felt excessively disappointed by authorities to ballot astatine each — convey you for the accidental to beryllium myself worthy of your trust. I volition aftermath each greeting with a singular purpose: to marque this metropolis amended for you than it was the time before."

Zohran Mamdani delivers a triumph code astatine a mayoral predetermination nighttime ticker party, connected Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, successful New York City. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

President Donald Trump warned Wednesday during a code astatine the America Business Forum that New Yorkers could fly to Florida pursuing Mamdani’s win. He claimed Miami could crook into a "refuge for those fleeing communism successful New York City."

Trump has knocked Mamdani, a self-described antiauthoritarian socialist, for being a "communist." On Election Day, the president threatened to lend the "very minimum" successful national funds to New York City if Mamdani were elected.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

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"It tin lone get worse with a Communist astatine the helm, and I don’t privation to send, arsenic President, bully wealth aft bad," Trump wrote connected his Truth Social.

Still, Trump said aft Mamdani's triumph that helium wants the metropolis to bash well, and that helium would "help them a small bit."