Sean Rameswaram

Do you understand the need for generational change?

Right.

So these are things that aren't left center.

And I think that Mandani has excited just about everybody that is either on the progressive end of the spectrum in the party or who's just eager for newer, younger faces who understand what's going on, who do politics in a different way, who don't feel like repurposing of the old talking points for the umpteenth time.

Right.

And so there's a bunch of people that see him as an opportunity, someone to follow, someone to emulate.

How does he package this affordability agenda?

How is he mainstreaming progressive ideas?

How is he representative of a kind of politics that can motivate younger people because it looks fun and inclusive and participatory?

Then I think there's Democrats that are terrified of Zoran Mamdani because of all those things.

Let's just take Chuck Schumer, who's like the stand in for, I think, a lot of the Democratic establishment that people are frustrated with, who didn't even endorse Mamdani, even though he's from New York.

Obviously, he's ambivalent about Mamdani's politics on Israel-Palestine.

He's reluctant to let go of the reins to a new generation in the same way that we saw kind of a Joe Biden be reluctant in his time in office.

He's kind of internalized these ideas

He fights over the years between the left wing of the party and the center and is kind of worried about, I don't know, the ascendancy of the Democratic Socialists and losing control of an agenda that is usually dictated from Washington, not the other way around.

And so I think he's been, I don't want to say polarizing because the Schumers of the world can't really...

speak out against Mamdani anymore because he's so popular at this point.

But I do think that there are people that are ambivalent and then there are people that are excited.

And the number of excited people is the growing quotient.

Looking at him next to a figure like Schumer.