00:00Since you're in New York, Nassim, and since Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York, came out with that phrase,
00:08I am an immigrant. Well, indeed he is. He's 34 years old, appeared from nowhere, defied the odds and won the mayoral race.
00:15I just wonder what's, you know, what sort of a debate has his election to that top office in New York generated there?
00:24Well, you know, New York is a city with a huge immigrant population, and I think the success of Zohran Mamdani is really a reflection of his ability to bring all these,
00:40a lot of these immigrant communities who have no history of voting, he brought them in and encouraged them to go out and vote.
00:49Basically, these were marginalized communities, whether it's Bangladeshis or Arab-Americans or from Africa.
00:59These are communities that historically have not participated in the voting process.
01:04He was successful in motivating these communities to come out and vote, and that is really one of the reasons of his success a couple of days ago.
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