Karl: You’ve got Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic member of Congress, who says, “Many of us believe, as do I, if you’re a socialist, you are not a Democrat.”
And in fact, they put out a manifesto today. Have you seen this thing?
Mamdani: Sounds pretty socialist to me.
Karl: It’s not a communist manifesto. It’s a moderate manifesto saying we are capitalists, not socialists. We believe in a growing, fair, and competitive economy, entrepreneurship, ownership. I mean, this is a direct response. They’ve made it clear what they think about what you did here on Tuesday.
Mamdani: Well, I mean, you know, that’s great, but what’s a party if not its voters?
And I’m proud to sit in front of you as the mayor of our city, having received more than a million votes a little less than a year ago.
And when we’re talking about these incredible congressional candidates, they won their races, and they won their races with a vision of what politics should be—one that actually speaks to working people.
And for a lot of people who ask themselves, “What does democratic socialism mean?” you can tell them the answer at a theoretical level: it’s the choice to extend democracy from the ballot box to the rest of their lives.
But in terms of what it means, over these last seven months, we’ve seen a city with democratic socialist principles at the heart of our administration. And what we’ve delivered has been record lows when it comes to murders and shootings.
Karl: So is it pragmatic democratic socialism?
Mamdani: I think democratic socialism, at heart, is pragmatic because, if we cannot deliver for working people, then what is this for? I'm not interested in writing a manifesto or frankly, in reading one. I'm interested in delivering. And that's exactly what we've been showing.
Graham Platner: “If I had my way, elections would last two months, they would be publicly funded, and if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way we’d put ‘em in jail.”
Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected.
Workers deserve better.
Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."
Huge surveillance corporations like Palantir can use AI to increasingly track and record every aspect of our lives.
We cannot allow a handful of tech billionaires to destroy what remains of personal privacy in America.
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran.
Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.
Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.
These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?
Does anyone really believe that?
Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul of New York for moving their state forward toward universal child care.
This is what our kids need. This is what working parents need. And this is what we should have throughout our country.