Zohran Mamdani: “New Yorkers want someone who can stand up to an…”

“… president's vision of a New York City that is ripping immigrants from their homes, that is detaining New Yorkers on the basis of political expression, that in fact, what they New Yorkers want someone who can stand up to an authoritarian administration and to the billionaires that gave us that administration.” (01:05–01:39)

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