Zohran Mamdani: “Mayor de Blasio, who ran on [universal pre-k] as part of his…”

“So one of the most impressive achie in city politics in the last few decades was the creation of universal pre k. That was done by the previous mayor, who, Mayor de Blasio, who ran on [universal pre-k] as part of his agenda, needed Albany to get it done. There were all these articles written about how it was unrealistic. He went up against a governor who was very much opposed to it, and he won the funding for that because of the coalition that he built.” (28:38–28:45)

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