Zohran Mamdani: “Ronald Reagan had just won the presidency. He had even won…”

“So many people know you as a senator, as a presidential candidate, but you were also a mayor for eight years. Four terms. Four terms. And the time when you decided to run, Ronald Reagan had just won the presidency. He had even won Vermont. And yet there you were as a democratic socialist, a deciding to run for mayor. What made you make that decision? I think Reagan was part of it during that period.” (00:20–00:26)

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