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Zohran Mamdani: “Are you criminalizing misdemeanors? No, you can't find that…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Published August 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 07:22

And you said something yesterday. And I'm just going to play a quick sound bite of that and we'll talk about it. Are you criminalizing misdemeanors? No, you can't find that on my platform because it's not there. So you say you don't agree with everything that they stand for, as you said right there. But where is, where do you guys differ and what things do they specifically have that you disagree with? (07:22–07:29)

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Asserts that criminalizing misdemeanors is not part of his platform.

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