Zohran Mamdani, the mayor candidate of New York City, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has a weak view of the ultra -rich, but is still ready to work with them.
In Interview about NBCS Meet the press with Kristen Welker On Sunday he was asked whether billionaires have the right to exist.
“I don’t think we should have billionaires, because frankly it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,” he replied. “And ultimately we need more equality in our city and in our state and in our country. And I look forward to working with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for everyone.”
Mamdani amazed the political establishment on Tuesday by winning the democratic area code for the mayor’s breed.
Its platform includes the production of bus service free, freezing rents for rental apartments, the doubling of the minimum wage to $ 30, the construction of grocery stores in the city and the hike of taxes to the top 1% of the city’s earnings.
At the NBC on Sunday, Mamdani was also asked if he was a communist, what President Donald Trump accused him of.
“No, I’m not,” he said. “And I had to get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, where I come from, from which I come from, ultimately because he wants to distract from what I fight for. And I fight for the very working people he carried out a campaign to authorize that he has cheated since then.”
In the meantime, the opponents of Mamdani are looking for the general elections of the city on November 4. The incumbent mayor Eric Adams is now running for the re -election as independent after he has lost in the democratic primary school. And Andrew Cuomo, who was also defeated in primary school, will still appear in the election of the city on the independent election line in November.
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman committed to the bankroll Every candidate for mayor who is able to defeat Mamdani and says that he and his wealthy employees are ready to commit “hundreds of millions of dollars”.
“If the right candidate would increase his hand tomorrow, the funds will flow in” posted on social media on Wednesday.
