This is someone who does not have the capacity, the experience or the team, frankly, to run a city of New York City size and scope. And This is someone who is going to hold Kathy Hochul hostage in the budget negotiations because the socialists are going to demand tax hikes from her. And whatever their list of policy priorities are, whether it's defunding the police, whether it's, as I said, making the affordability crisis worse by raising utility prices. (13:50–13:59)
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Asserts that Mamdani will pressure Kathy Hochul into tax hikes during budget negotiations.
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