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Leila Fadel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2677 total appearances

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Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

Police reform being one.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

Another, critics will say that you promised to expand a rental voucher program, but now you're trying to limit it.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

Are you finding that it is harder to implement campaign promises now that you're actually in the office?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

When will New Yorkers start to feel that promise of affordability?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

One of the places where it seems a bit more challenging is on your promise around police reform, especially because you and the commissioner don't seem to be on the same page.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

When you look back at what you did promise on policing, especially when it's that particular unit that deals with protesters, some accused of heavy-handed tactics, where do you stand now?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

But how will you disband that particular unit which arrested protesters if the police commissioner doesn't have the same goal and if police see you as overly sympathetic to accusers who come forward and say the police were not acting right?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

You're a proud democratic socialist.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

It's clear Republicans plan to use you and that platform to

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

as an attack point come the midterms.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

Do you feel pressure to prove that your brand of democratic socialism works before the midterms?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

What I'm asking is, whether you like it or not, you have been made to seem like a boogeyman of some kind, right?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

From the Republicans, especially when you were running.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

So do you feel an added sense of pressure nationally because of the face you've become

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

of the Democratic Party and specifically the progressive part of this party?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

Has the war in Iran had an outsized impact specifically on the economy of this city?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

Have you shared, I know you've spoken publicly about your concerns about this war, but have you shared those directly with President Trump?

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

So I know you said, I'll keep the contents of those conversations between us.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

But when you were campaigning, President Trump did have names for you.

Up First from NPR
Zohran Mamdani on NYC as a blueprint for Democrats | NPR's Newsmakers

He called you a communist lunatic, and you had names for him.