What Does Mamdani’s Win Say About New York?

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00:00Okay. I mean, internationally, it certainly captured the imaginations of a lot of people

00:04because, Angie, I mean, a self-described socialist has just become New York's youngest mayor since

00:10the year 1892, the city's first Muslim mayor, the first African-born mayor. I mean,

00:18what sort of a message does all of that send about New York?

00:22And it's pretty clear. I mean, during his victory speech, he was very proud to say,

00:28I am a socialist, and this is a socialist moment. And that is what we saw yesterday. Democrats and

00:34socialists, they got the moment. That was their big win yesterday. Whether or not they can push

00:39the rest of the party farther and further to the left, that has still remained to be seen because,

00:45yes, Zoran Mandami won yesterday, but we also had Abigail Spanberger, and we also had Mickey

00:52Sherrill, who are much more moderate to the party. So there's going to be some internal fighting there

00:56to see who actually controls the Democrat party. But Zoran Mandami is certainly the rock star. He's

01:03a 34-year-old who has very, if not any, city management experience. I mean, you have to

01:10remember what this job is, to be the New York City mayor. You're in charge of garbage and snow

01:14removal and all those things. It's an actual job. So, you know, it's one thing to come in with no

01:21experience and to play out this kind of progressive theory in a real city, but another thing to really

01:27manage over, you know, 100,000 city workers. So we're going to see if that's going to work or if

01:32that's going to blow up in the left's face. And then Republicans will gladly come in and clean

01:38up New York City like we did with Rudy Giuliani back in the 90s.