Zohran Mamdani (guest)

And I share this example.

It's almost like you spent some time in Albany.

As inside baseball as it is.

But I think that's clearly because he feared an unchecked left.

Or a left that would actually be able to deliver.

And God forbid an unchecked left that was able to fulfill the aspirations of working people.

And I say this because governing will necessitate compromise.

There's no question about that.

Some of the compromises that have been made, however, are not the ones that are actually innate to these positions and to this politics.

Some of them have actually been created as a means by which to ensure that we could never fulfill the ideals that have brought so many to politics.

And the reason I am confident in my ability to deliver on what we have campaigned on is

is because of the fact one, that we have campaigned on a very specific set of commitments.

I would argue that far more than many other campaigns, New Yorkers know exactly what it is that I'm running on.

I'll have people stop me in the street and just shout fast and free buses or universal childcare or freeze the rent.

And that means that we're building a movement not around an individual,

But rather around these policy commitments.

And that is what we will be held to account for.

And that is something that I want.

Because in order to bring people back to politics, in order to bring people's faith back to the idea that government could actually make their lives easier, we have to be honest about what it is we're fighting for, who we're fighting for, and then to deliver on those very things.

No, I moved to New York City when I was seven years old.