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Zohran Mamdani: “We are missing [the ambition of the New Deal] now.”

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

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When I think about the greatest mayor in New York city's history, Fiorell LaGuardia, his relationship with FDR, the New Deal, all that it presented then, We are missing [the ambition of the New Deal] now. And what we need to do is to ensure that this is a Democratic party that doesn't have to look to the history books to find a sense of ambition that matches the scale of a crisis. (18:04)

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Asserts that current politics lacks the ambition of the New Deal era.

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