Andrew Cuomo Says Zohran Mamdani "Won" NYC Democratic Primary
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Also, it's a live updates page, not the greatest link.
>In a speech to supporters, Cuomo said Mamdani - a 33-year-old democratic socialist - had "won" the primary race and that "we are going to take a look and make some decisions".
Perhaps there's a reasonable explanation. I think news agencies are using the quotes because a) it's a close race and counting will continue next week, and b) Cuomo may have been referring to the primary race but not to the general election.
From the BBC:
>In an interview with the New York Times, Cuomo said he was still examining whether he would run in the general election in November on the independent line.
>"I said he won the primary election," Cuomo told the outlet. "I said I wanted to look at the numbers and the ranked-choice voting to decide about what to do in the future, because I'm also on an independent line."
I haven't been following the race but maybe this is why the news agencies are using quotes around won. Unless any other commenters know a better reason?
Journalistically, that can be appropriate to indicate that that word was used by Cuomo; distinguishing direct quotation from paraphrase or interpretation of intent.
OTOH, on HN, the policy is to use the source headline unless there is a strong reason not to, using a paraphrase of a bullet point in the article-top summary is dubious, even if that bullet point is the main reason the poster was inspired to post the link.