00:11Curtis Sliwa is no stranger to New York politics. He founded volunteer group the Guardian Angels
00:18in the 70s and more recently ran against Mamdani as the Republican candidate.
00:36Curtis says Mamdani understood the issues many voters care about, but the new mayor has underestimated his opponents.
00:44Take care of yourself. I think with Zoran, it's more naivete than the fact that he doesn't want to achieve
00:53it.
00:54But I think he's going to realise fast that the powers that be are not going to let him get
00:59what his agenda is.
01:01What's the resistance he's going to face? Who are those people standing in his way?
01:05It's the billionaires, the millionaires.
01:08Except if you notice, when he had his opportunity to go to the White House on November 27th after he
01:13won the election, oh, what a love fest.
01:17Even to the point where Donald Trump said, oh, you want to call me a fascist or that's fine.
01:23See, with Donald Trump, it's all about the money.
01:25Don't ever, don't ever mischaracterise that as a sincere love.
01:30He just knows that he's got to deal with Zoran Mamdani as the mayor of the city of New York.
01:35Do you think there's something at play with, Mamdani wants to build a lot of housing.
01:39He wants to build a lot more real estate.
01:42President Trump was in real estate before.
01:44Well, you see, Zoran basically signals that he will do business with big real estate,
01:50even though they did everything to vilify him during the campaign.
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