Zohran Mamdani: “He struggled to pronounce your last name.”

“When you ran for mayor, you were in your 30s. You were running against someone who had been in power for quite some time. Five terms. Five terms. And He struggled to pronounce your last name. Yep. He called you Saunders. Saunders. What took you to the point where. You were able to, if I must say so, please, you know, what we did back then is exactly what I'm trying to do politically today.” (02:30–02:32)

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