Tim Miller

And I thought that Zoramandani, and again, I'm clear ideology matters.

And so they had an affirming view and a sense that there wasn't anything wrong with New York City that can't be solved by everything that's right.

in New York City, including that diverse, complicated electorate, right?

So I'm a big believer that in order to be successful electorally, you have to have a set of values that people can align with.

And then that has to be connected to some kind of a story of where you're trying to take people and then clear a shorthand on some policy solutions, right?

So I

I think that there are a lot of people who are damn strategic, who are on the left, who would agree with me on all of that, plus the fact that this is a really gifted communicator, right?

He's not a normie, right?

He's not like you and I. Not a lunch pail communicator.

I will say, I will say,

And here's the thing that I thought was underreported.

If you pay attention to Donald Trump, when he was sitting looking at Zawin Mamdani in the Oval Office and getting peppered with questions by the press, it was interesting to hear the president lift up a thing that the mayor-elect was prepared for when he went into the Oval.

mayoral act showed him here are all the communities where you did really well and oh by the way i happen to do really well in those places as well because folks were hearing the same message from you and i that the system is rigged against them that there are ways to repair the economy but it's not to do the traditional like business as usual and that we have to center them in our outcomes donald trump

looked at America.

He looked at the press, gathered in front of him in the Oval Office and said, hey, I think that Bernie Sanders got a bad deal.

There are a lot of people who support Bernie Sanders that support me as well.

And let me tell you why they do it.

Then he gave his explication on it.

That was the most important thing that Donald Trump said that day.

So it's important that he has said in a long time.