Did Mamdani’s Israel-Hamas Stance Boost His Win?

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00:00What do you make of Armani's comments there?

00:02In particular, do you think he was boosted by his very outspoken stance

00:08with regard to the Israel-Hamas conflict?

00:10I feel like everybody's over-indexing on the parts of his election

00:13that they feel the strongest about.

00:15So people on the very far left think that it's because of his position on Israel-Palestine.

00:19And I'm sure that energised, especially younger voters,

00:21you know, a bit more people on the right are attacking him

00:24for all sorts of crazy reasons that I don't think are very relevant

00:27to why he's winning, him being a socialist or communist

00:30or a radical Islamic jihadist that, you know, I've heard.

00:33I feel like my analysis is a lot more crude or boring.

00:36Like I look at the two campaigns, I feel like Cuomo's was relatively uninspired.

00:40I'm probably quite a bit to the right of Mamdani when it comes to economics.

00:43There's a lot of his policy that I don't really like,

00:45but I thought it was really funny.

00:46Like it almost felt like I was watching like a guest star on The Daily Show.

00:50He seems like a funny dude.

00:51I like listening to all of his speeches.

00:54He seems like he's been pretty above board with all of his campaign stuff

00:57whereas the attacks against him I felt have been pretty unhinged

00:59from Cuomo and from the Republican establishment at large.

01:04And I mean, New York City is a pretty left-leaning voting population.

01:07So once he secured the primary,

01:09I feel like it was pretty unlikely that he was going to lose in the general.

01:13So yeah, that's just how I view it.

01:14I think he ran a good campaign.

01:15I think he deserved to win.

01:16I would have to.