Zoran Mamdani

particularly for New Yorkers who are facing some of the affordability crisis that he campaigned that he was going to fight.

You know, there are bigger things that they would like to do.

Certainly, the Tax the Rich campaign is something that he has continued to talk about.

He's facing a $5.4 billion budget shortfall.

So that doesn't close that gap by a long shot.

And he has not had a lot of success with the city council in terms of how they're proposing going about balancing this budget.

So, you know, without that tax increase,

And with sort of being at odds with the council who he has to negotiate with, this is still going to be a big challenge between now and that June 30th deadline.

So it's interesting.

He's got a 48 percent approval rating and 30 percent who disapprove.

And by comparison, at the same point during the Adams administration, Eric Adams had more closer to a 60 percent approval.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I mean, you have to remember where we were in March of 2022.

We were just coming out of, you know, the depths of the pandemic.

This is when Mayor Eric Adams was talking about how a city with swagger needed a mayor with swagger, and he was going to bring that to New York City.

This is of course before some of the corruption charges emerged later in his administration and his approval ratings plummeted.

So

With that plummeting approval rating, I think there was also a loss of trust in city government.

What you see in Mamdani's approval rating is about a 20-point jump from the low of the Adams administration, which was in October of 2024, just after he had been indicted on five federal corruption charges that were then dropped at the direction of President Trump's Justice Department.