Zohran Mamdani

I think there's a temptation when you win, we've seen it in the past to say, now, trust me, you can go home.

The point of me winning is that you don't have to worry about politics anymore.

The point of me winning is we keep fighting for the same agenda together.

And that means you bring people along with you and you also demystify what it is that you're doing.

I mean,

This transition period is probably the most opaque period, typically, because it's between a campaign and governance and most New Yorkers are never brought into it.

Yeah, it's usually insiders only.

Yeah, and I think that's both in the way that it's funded and it's the way that it's also spoken about.

And we wanted New Yorkers to be at the heart of that because most people didn't even know that there's no public funding for transitions.

And I've had so many people ask me, what do you mean you have to pay for office space?

What do you mean you have to pay for payroll, healthcare?

inauguration.

These are often things that are not brought up because you fundraise in the manner of previous administrations whose average donations were north of $1,000 per person.

And ours, I think,

more than 95% of our donations are below $250.

And I think that's just, that is one aspect of how you bring people into this.

You do.

And I think there's often a description as if the campaign ends and governance begins with the implication that you leave people behind.

And in many ways, you have to keep going in the same kind of manner.

I think you have to do the work to create actual opportunities for engagement as opposed to vague invitations.