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Zohran Mamdani: The Next Big Thing, Or A Democratic Dead End?

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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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