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Zohran Mamdani: The Next Big Thing, Or A Democratic Dead End?
Published 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
Mike talks with Tim Murphy, a national correspondent at Mother Jones, about the NYC mayoral campaign of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Topics Mike and Tim discuss include:
- lessons learned from Trump’s NYC gains in 2024
- disillusionment and disengagement in Democratic cities
- Mamdani’s limited experience
- how much Mamdani benefited from running against Cuomo
- Mamdani’s affordability platform
- how he plans to pay for everything he wants to do
- an attempt to revoke Mamdani’s citizenship
- the ‘globalize the Intifada’ controversy
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