Is Governor Hochul Going to Play Trumponomics or Execute the Will of Voters?
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All right, buenos dias, listeners. I'm in Mexico, and I want to talk to you all about a New York Times focus group that just dropped today. And this is pretty fascinating stuff because I think we've all felt it. We've all felt that the base of the party is moving towards wanting to fight, wanting to be a full resistance. And then our Democratic leadership, specifically Chuckles and Hakeem and some other players surrounding them, are not putting up a fight at all. Validation at once, Kylie popped this up, A New York Times just did a focus group of Democrats, and this is what they had to say about their own party.
What insights does the New York Times focus group reveal about the Democratic Party?
The words were spineless, more complacent than I thought they would be, paralyzed, afraid, incompetent, suffocated, sold out. The Democratic Party lined their pockets and created, they created this mess. Put up the next slide, Kylie. Sellouts and suckers, immobilized. Can I say no balls, no cojones? I will say that there are a large number of young Democrats that are really starting to climb the ranks in the party that are motivated. I'm hoping that the word starts to take over a little more. So I think that the New York Times found a group of people for this focus group that represent people all across the country. Americans that are independent, Democratic, progressive or leftist are very important.
disappointed in Democratic leadership. This is not happening in a vacuum. This is nationwide. But that last person in the focus group mentioned young Democrats who were fighting the good fight. And one shining example, even Trump couldn't help but just smile and stare at the man in complete adoration, is, of course, the mayor of New York City, the young, progressive Zoran Mamdani. And he is the most favorable politician in the United States of America right now. Kylie, pop this up. Zoran Mamdani's popularity hits new high according to this poll, and this is in Newsweek. And so why is Zoran so popular? Zoran is so popular because he is not beholden to corporations, period. And he takes a message of universal human rights, and that includes affordability.
Affordability, meaning it's equal to everybody. And people like that message. People like that he is not a status quo, pick me politician. So as you all know, he just was sworn in and he has gotten to work very, very quickly. One thing I like about what the mayor of New York does is he does a very good job governing and communicating to the public what he's doing. He's constantly on social media, he's constantly on podcasts, constantly on the news, adding to the narrative, this is what we did today, this is what we need to do today. But when he arrived in the city hall, in the mayor's office, The former mayor, Eric Adams, left him with a billion dollar deficit. And according to the state law, they have to operate under a balanced budget.
Well, Zoran is pulling up with the, you know, great electoral win that he had against Democratic establishment candidates, against the Republican Party, against the billionaire class, against the Epstein class. Zoran won. And he won from everyday Americans and small donors. But he's facing this multi-billion dollar deficit. And so he goes to the people and he spells it out as plain spoken as you can imagine. Play this clip.
I want to be clear. $5.4 billion is still a very steep mountain to climb. And there are two paths that we can walk, one that offers long-term stability and a second one with significant pain that we deeply hope to avoid. The first path repairs the structural imbalance between the city and the state. We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million a year, and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations. And we know that for far too long, New Yorkers have given far more to the state than what we have received in return. It is time to end the drain. If we cannot follow this first path, we will be forced onto a much more damaging path of last resort, one where we have to use the only tools at the city's disposal, raising property taxes and raiding our reserves.
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