He wants to empty Rikers Island. My belief that small businesses like bodegas and supermarkets are important. He wants to do government stores and put [small businesses like bodegas and supermarkets] out of business. My belief that the financial ecosystem, we need billionaires, we need low income workers so that we can have a combined ecosystem. He doesn't believe that. (00:48–00:52)
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Asserts that [Mamdani] supports government-run stores that would harm small businesses.
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