Zohran Mamdani: “We brought out more young people than this city has seen in…”

“People have asked me who is my chief opponent in this race. It's not any one of these people. It is despair and disaffection that New Yorkers feel for their politics. We brought out more young people than this city has seen in a mayoral election in recent history. And we did it by speaking about what this city could be, what politics should be. And yet what we are chained down by is what politics is today.” (12:00–12:08)

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