Kshama Sawant

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 7/27/26: Kshama Sawant: My Independent Socialist Campaign Will Defeat Adam Smith! · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

Either there will be pitch battle inside the Democratic Party or there won't be.

And the new one, new Congress members will be schooled into accepting.

And already we have seen Mamdani and AOC endorse Hakeem Jeffrey.

So that's the kind of concrete question I'm talking about.

And I'm running as an independent, of course.

And I'm happy to if I if elected, I would be happy to work with the Democrats who want to fight alongside me for the working class people.

But I'm just saying that the questions will be posed concretely like that question about Hakeem Jeffries.

I think if you look at what has happened, I agree with you, the rent freeze and all of that, as I've said in previous shows, for me as a revolutionary socialist, I mean, I may have differences on various questions of strategy, but as far as working class victories are concerned, I support every single victory.

And for me, that is a very...

I insist on a non-sectarian approach, meaning that I might have critique, but having a critique of other leaders on the left, in my view, is not sectarianism.

Sectarianism is when you refuse to prioritize the interests of the working class in order to prioritize your petty differences or petty quibbles and stuff like that.

And so

Is the rent freeze important for the working class whose lives are going to be made better by that?

Yes, absolutely.

The question, though, in my view, is everything else that's missing.

And so it does bring up the question of strategy, which is how much can you win and for how long can you win?

based on the approach of trying to sweet-talk the billionaire class, trying to make deals, as you said, Crystal, cutting a deal.

I don't subscribe to the approach of cutting deals.

I subscribe to the approach of using elected office to build mass movement.

So his campaign itself, and I've been very clear about this, his campaign itself was very much, you know, the approach he used was very much something that I have used in my campaigns, which is

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