Zohran Mamdani is political career and achievements Every thing about him Part 1

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00:00his political career and achievements everything about the graph and zohran mamdani his life and

00:08everything about him part one zohran kwami mamdani born october 18th 1991 is an american politician

00:16who has served since 2021 as a member of the new york state assembly from the 36th district

00:20based in queens a member of the democratic party and the democratic socialists of america

00:25mamdani is the presumptive democratic nominee for mayor of new york city in the 2025 election

00:31the son of professor mahmoud mamdani and filmmaker mira nair mamdani immigrated to the united states

00:37with his family when he was seven years old and settled in new york city after graduating from

00:42the bronx high school of science mamdani earned a bachelor's degree in africana studies from baudouin

00:47college he worked as a housing counselor and hip-hop musician before entering politics he was first

00:55elected to the new york state assembly in 2020 defeating four-term incumbent aravella simotis

01:01in a democratic primary mamdani was re-elected without opposition in 2022 and 2024. in october 2024

01:10mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of new york city in the 2025 mayoral election his campaign

01:17platform includes support for fare-free city buses public child care city-owned grocery stores a rent

01:24freeze on rent stabilized units additional affordable housing units comprehensive public safety reform

01:30and a thirty dollars minimum wage by 2030. mamdani also supports tax increases on corporations and

01:37those earning above one million dollars annually he has been sharply critical of the state of israel's

01:42treatment of the palestinian people pledging to abide by the international criminal court arrest warrants

01:48for israeli leaders by arresting prime minister benjamin netanyahu if he were to visit new york city

01:54during the democratic primaries mamdani received endorsements from prominent progressive politicians

01:59including bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio cortez mamdani became the democratic party's

02:05presumptive mayoral nominee after andrew cuomo conceded the 2025 new york city democratic mayoral primary

02:13zohran kwameh mamdani was born on october 18 1991 in kampala uganda his father is mahmoud mamdani

02:22a former indian expatriate in uganda of gujarati shia muslim descent who is a post-colonial studies

02:28professor at columbia university his mother is mira nair an indian american filmmaker of hindu punjabi

02:35descent and a recipient of the padma bushon award his father gave him the middle name kwameh in honor

02:42of kwameh nakruma the first president of ghana when he was five mamdani and his family moved to cape

02:48town south africa he attended saint george's grammar school while his father worked at the university of

02:53cape town the family moved to new york city when mamdani was seven living on the upper west side of

02:59manhattan he graduated from the bank street school for children and the bronx high school of science

03:05where he unsuccessfully ran for vice president mamdani attended bodoin college in maine where

03:10he co-founded the school's chapter of students for justice in palestine he graduated in 2014 with a

03:17bachelor's degree in african studies before running for office mamdani worked as a foreclosure prevention

03:23and housing counselor assisting lower-income non-white homeowners in queens with eviction notices

03:29and efforts to remain in their homes he said the experience motivated him to run for office to

03:34address the housing and affordability crisis mamdani is a fan of hip-hop and has composed and produced

03:41rap music in 2016 under the rap moniker young cardamom he collaborated with ugandan rapper heb on an ep

03:49titled sida mukyalo which is luganda for no going back to the village in 2019 he released a single titled

03:57nani under the moniker mr cardamom cookbook author and actress madur jaffrey is featured in the

04:03singles music video playing mamdani's grandmother mamdani curated and produced the soundtrack for his

04:08mother mira nair's 2016 film queen of cutway as the film's music supervisor he was nominated in the

04:152017 guild of music supervisors awards mamdani entered new york city politics as a volunteer for ali

04:22nazmi's campaign in the 2015 special election for the 23rd district of the city council in 2017

04:29mamdani joined the democratic socialists of america dsa and worked for the campaign of new york city

04:35council candidate kater el yatim a palestinian lutheran minister and democratic socialist from bay

04:41ridge brooklyn mamdani served as the campaign manager for ross barkin's 2018 bid for the new york

04:46state senate and was also a field organizer for fellow democratic socialist tiffany caben's 2019

04:52campaign for queen's county district attorney in october 2019 momdani announced his campaign to

04:58represent new york's 36th state assembly district which encompasses astoria and long island city in

05:04queens he was endorsed by the dsa running on a platform of housing reform police and prison reform

05:11and public ownership of utilities momdani's june 2020 primary victory over four-term democratic

05:18incumbent aravella samotis took almost a month to call and he won the general election with no

05:23republican opposition in november momdani was re-elected without opposition in 2022 and 2024

05:30momdani is a member of the dsa's nine member state socialists in office block in new york

05:35and a member of the muslim democratic club of new york as of january 2025 momdani was a member of

05:42nine assembly committees the committee on aging the committee on cities the committee on election law

05:49the committee on energy the committee on real property taxation the black puerto rican hispanic

05:56and asian legislative caucus the puerto rican hispanic task force the asian pacific american task

06:03force and the task force on new americans momdani had been the primary sponsor of 20 bills in the

06:09assembly three of which became law and the co-sponsor of 238 bills as of may 2025. as of march 2025

06:19he was the only state legislator in the mayoral race not to miss a session in albany in 2025.

06:26as a member of the assembly momdani helped to launch a successful fare-free bus pilot program

06:31and participated in a hunger strike alongside taxi drivers 2025 new york city mayoral campaign

06:38on october 23rd 2024 momdani announced his candidacy for mayor of new york city in 2025.

06:44his platform includes support for free city buses and a rent freeze in rent stabilized housing momdani

06:50also wants the city government to operate five grocery stores one in each borough to drive down

06:56grocery prices momdani's platform includes support for universal child care and for the construction

07:01of 200 000 new affordable housing units he also supports public safety reform and a 30 minimum

07:08wage by 2030. his platform calls for tax increases on corporations and those earning above one million

07:14dollars annually he has been critical of the state of israel's treatment of the palestinian people

07:19pledging to abide by an international criminal court warrant by arresting benjamin netanyahu if he were to

07:24visit new york city u.s representative alexandria ocasio cortez endorsed momdani as her first choice

07:30for new york city mayor saying momdani has demonstrated a real ability on the ground to

07:34put together a coalition of working-class new yorkers that is strongest to lead the pack

07:39she appeared at a rally for momdani on june 14th on june 13th momdani and brad lander cross-endorsed

07:46each other in the primary u.s senator bernie sanders endorsed momdani saying our nation faces a

07:53fundamental choice will we continue with a corporate dominated politics driven by billionaires

07:58or will we build a grassroots movement fueled by everyday people committed to fighting oligarchy

08:03authoritarianism and kleptocracy also on june 16th the editorial board of the new york times wrote that

08:09it did not believe that mr momdani deserves a spot on new yorkers ballots calling his experience too thin

08:15and likening his agenda to a turbocharged version of mr de blasio's dismaying mayoralty

08:21the atlantic's michael powell likened his campaign to magical realism claiming it was exuberantly

08:27disconnected from actual government budgets and organizational charts after the primary election

08:33president donald trump called momdani a 100 communist lunatic the new york times's chief fashion critic

08:41vanessa friedman noted the deliberate contrast between those sorts of radical descriptors and momdani's

08:47preferred dress code which for his mayoral campaign consisted almost exclusively of a traditional suit

08:53and tie dressing like an establishment guy offers a counter-argument of its own she said

08:59for most of the campaign momdani trailed cuomo in polling while he and cuomo raised similar amounts of

09:06money his donor base was considerably larger than cuomo's however a poll taken shortly before the june

09:1224th primary election showed that momdani had caught up to cuomo first choice results on election night

09:19showed momdani had a large lead over cuomo who conceded the race to momdani that evening the result

09:25which has not yet become official is considered a major upset the new york times wrote that momdani's

09:31victory in the primary offered the starkest evidence yet that outspoken opposition to israel and its

09:36government and even questioning its existence as a jewish state is increasingly acceptable to broader

09:42swaths of the party even in areas where pro-israel jews have long been a bedrock part of the democratic

09:48coalition when cuomo conceded the primary momdani became the democratic party's presumptive mayoral

09:54nominee shortly thereafter u.s representative andy ogles wrote attorney general pam bondy alleging

10:01that momdani had concealed support for terrorism when he applied to become a citizen and asking bondi

10:07to revoke momdani's citizenship and deport him in a tweet about his letter ogles referred to momdani

10:14as little muhammad and anti-semitic socialist communist if elected momdani would be the first

10:21indian american first south asian american first muslim and first millennial mayor of new york city

10:27some republicans have attacked momdani using islamophobic racist or xenophobic content

10:34shortly after momdani became the presumptive nominee u.s representative andy ogles wrote attorney

10:39general pam bondi alleging that momdani had concealed support for terrorism when he applied to become a

10:45citizen and asking bondi to revoke momdani's citizenship and deport him in a tweet about his

10:50letter ogles referred to momdani as little muhammad and anti-semitic socialist communist representative

10:57nancy mace suggested a connection between momdani and the 9-11 terrorist attacks and representative

11:04marjorie taylor green posted an image of the statue of liberty wearing a burqa others associated with the

11:10maga movement including laura loomer charlie kirk and donald trump jr also spoke of momdani in the

11:16context of 9-11 the council on american islamic relations noted a significant increase in islamophobic

11:22content on the social network x the day after momdani became the presumptive nominee on july 1st

11:29president trump said a lot of people are saying he's here illegally and his administration would

11:34be looking into it also threatening to arrest him and withhold funding for new york if he refused to

11:39comply with trump's mass deportations after momdani became the presumptive nominee senator kirsten

11:46gillibrand appeared on the brian lehrer show and criticized his past statements specifically

11:51referencing what she described as references to global jihad host brian lehrer issued an on-air

11:57disclaimer stating there was no evidence mamdani had supported hamas or violent jihad

12:02gillibrand dismissed the clarification and continued her criticism her comments drew backlash from

12:08progressive politicians including city councilman chi osei who called for gillibrand to face a primary

12:14challenge in 2030 and from journalist mahdi hassan who stated that gillibrand should resign for falsely

12:19smearing zohran mamdani as a terrorist jillibrand's office later said she had misspoke in the interview

12:26however on june 30th she called mamdani to apologize for her remarks mamdani began to identify as a

12:33democratic socialist after bernie sanders's 2016 presidential campaign he is a member of the

12:39democratic socialists of america mamdani supports a universal pre-kindergarten child care system

12:45he has proposed giving all new new york city families baby baskets containing products such

12:50as diapers and nursing supplies mamdani introduced a bill to eliminate new york universities and columbia

12:56university's state property tax exemption and direct those funds to the city university of new york system

13:03which has historically struggled with funding in an interview with dirblat a newspaper associated with

13:09the hasidic movement of judaism mamdani expressed a desire to defend hasidic yeshiva's institutions for

13:15torah study from accusations of failing to meet state educational standards he stated that i will listen

13:21to your leaders on education and i will work to protect you from anyone who wants to disturb your way of

13:26life i stop at this point today until next time stay curious stay informed and keep exploring the world's

13:35incredible stories soon we will publish part two thank you for watching

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