Zohran Mamdani

And I think that comes back to delivery.

That comes back to freezing the rent, making buses fast and free, delivering universal childcare.

You have to transform people's lives in a way that they can actually touch and feel and hold onto

so that they're not just grasping at the memories of what the struggle was like.

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.