Qasim Rashid
speaker
1,282 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 7 Aug
Qasim Rashid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we need to recognize that there's a reason why people stay at home.
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We can disagree with it all we want, but there's a reason why a significant number of folks stay at home and we need to be able to reach out.
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You know, I was talking to Zoran Mamdani's campaign team and I said, what did he do that got him from 1% all the way to winning in the largest city in the country in this primary election and being the favorite now against an incumbent?
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And they said that we looked at the 2024 election and we looked at where there was the biggest rightward shift in all the boroughs.
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And that's where he went first.
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And he didn't go there and say to scold them or to say, I have the answer to your problems.
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He said, let me just understand what your problems are.
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I just want to hear it.
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Tell me raw everything that there is to know.
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And then based on that, he established his policies on the economic justice aspect of it, of free childcare and raising 2% tax on people over a million dollars and free bus fare and these kinds of things.
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And guess what?
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The message resonated.
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It worked.
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And I think we're seeing, Don, you and I are both seeing in real time
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the attacks he's getting, not just from Trump and MAGA, but also from other Democrats as well, that how dare this guy run on these values.
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I mean, Whitney Tilson, for God's sake, put out a mailer alleging that he wants to kill Jewish people.
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Are you serious?
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I did not see that.
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And I know, Whitney, are you kidding me?
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I'm dead serious.
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