Sean Rameswaram

The contrast is really just so apparent in two really considerable buckets.

One, he's just a much better communicator, which is like an understatement.

And then two, he seems to be way better at dealing with the president.

Are these the two buckets that Democrats are most focused on who are in office or maybe even aspiring to national office?

I think that those are two of the primary buckets.

I mean, there's obviously questions about, like, what does the Democratic Party stand for on certain issues?

But if you just take those two.

On the standing up to the president, let's just start there.

Mamdani's kind of proven what a lot of Democrats suspect, which is that our leadership has somehow completely failed to figure out a way to deal with Trump.

They're either...

you know, railing against him in public and not able to do anything in private, or they're trying to kind of cut a deal in the old-fashioned way, you know, like, we'll get to the government shutdown, then we'll negotiate some, you know, big legislative compromise, and that has not worked.

And so I think Malmedani shows, hey, you can be smart about this and be completely uncompromising, and Trump will actually respect you more, right?

And then on the communication side, it helps that Zohra Mamdani is a charismatic politician.

It helps that he's a very likable politician.

But I think the two things that I would highlight is he speaks like a normal human being and the Chuck Schumers of the world do not.

People are aroused.

They sound like they're talking about politics in D.C.

They, you know, it's always some kind of seemingly focus group poll tested phrase about the middle class that is like designed to offend the least people and therefore says absolutely nothing.

Whereas Mamdani just sounds like a normal guy, like an authentic person who's just telling you what he believes.

And I say that to you in a city where we know that time is money, where we know that too many of these kinds of press conferences have then been followed by years of waiting.