Zohran Mamdani: “A bachelor's is sufficient, actually. There's no requirement…”

“And the one thing though, when I ran for state assembly, my mom was like, you don't have to have a master's to do that. I was like, no. I was like, no. I was like, no. A bachelor's is sufficient, actually. There's no requirement [for a master's to run for state assembly]. Why do y'all do that? Why do y'all do that? My mom was like, yo, listen, I got a big TV deal. You know what I'm saying?” (07:28–07:32)

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