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New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who has expressed his desire to “seize the means of production, has vowed to pursue a radical agenda even if he only wins a minority of the vote.
During an interview on Friday night with CNN anchor Abby Phillip, Mamdani was asked how he would govern if he only won a minority of the vote. Such a possibility seems increasingly likely: the field is crowded and competitive, featuring former governor Andrew Cuomo, incumbent mayor Eric Adams, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, who founded the Guardian Angels.
“If you were to win in that place, would you see that as a mandate to do all the things that you’ve run on?” Phillips asked.
“If you win an election, you have to govern to fulfill the promises of that. Otherwise, what is the point of our politics,” Mamdani replied.
“That’s what I would do. And confident bringing even more New Yorkers into the political process like we did in June, where we saw the largest number of young people coming out to vote that we’ve seen in recent history in the city,” Mamdani added.
He said he draws inspiration from Tim Walz, the Minnesota Governor, and his view that political capital should always be used to deliver on campaign commitments.
Mamdani is running on a platform that includes a number of radical left-wing reforms, including the establishment of city-owned grocery stores, free childcare and a new tax on residents earning over $1 million a year.
He has also repeatedly said he would tax white neighborhoods in New York more heavily than others.
President Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from New York if Mamdani wins the race, in November.
Speaking to Maria Bartiromo of Fox News said he would take the drastic measure if Mamdani doesn’t “do the right thing.”
“He’s a communist,” Trump said.
“I think it’s very bad for New York. I don’t know that he’s gonna get in. It’s inconceivable… but he’s a communist, and he’s pure communist. I think he admits it. I can’t imagine it, but let’s say this: If he does get in, I’m gonna be president, then he’s going to have to do the right thing, but they’re not getting any money. He’s got to do to the right thing.”
The New York Post recently reported that Mamdani wants to end the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses
Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and its approved candidate for the mayoralty.
In its most recent platform, the DSA called policing and detention “instruments of class war” and said they function to “guarantee the domination of the working class.”
The DSA demands and end to “the criminalization of working-class survival.”
“For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state—from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society,” the party platform states.
Among the misdemeanors the DSA wants to abolish are theft or shoplifting up to a value of $1,000, drug possession, assault without a weapon and driving under the influence.
While on the campaign trail, Mamdani has repeatedly called for police to stop pursuing “non-serious crimes.”
“Police have a critical role to play but right now we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs,” he said in a campaign video posted to X.
Mamdani has also questioned the role of prisons and policing itself; although he has moderate his tone on “defunding the police” after the recent Park Avenue massacre.
He has called violent crime an “artificial construct.”
DSA members were recently recorded saying Mamdani wants to turn New York in a national hub for transgender surgery.
Daniel Goulden, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) New York steering committee, told a panel at last month’s conference that “Zohran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say we want to do, which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free. We’re gonna fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms.”
In one video posted to social media, he explains how the New York branch of the DSA has been working directly with the Mamdani campaign on his “trans-rights platform.”
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