New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sounded buoyant outside City Hall on Wednesday as he talked through a string of Election Night wins that broadened who holds office.

Grinning through the stop he said the country now has representatives who look more like the people they serve and called the moment a new day for America.

He pointed to races from coast to coast that flipped historic firsts into Democratic columns overnight.

Historic firsts he flagged

Gina Hinojosa became Texas' first Latina governor after denying Greg Abbott a fourth term according to the results he cited.

Abdul El-Sayed defeated Mike Rogers for a Michigan Senate seat and would be the first Muslim U.S. senator under those tallies. Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia's governorship as the first Black woman elected governor in the country on the same night's scorecard.

Deb Haaland is set to become New Mexico's governor and the first Native American governor nationwide while Chris Pappas of New Hampshire became the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. Senate according to the same rundown.