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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Sunday laughed when told about a Democratic manifesto rejecting socialism backed by lawmakers in the House and instead defended his legislative agenda laid out by New York candidates aligned with his political view.
Mamdani initially said that sounded like communism with told about the centrist manifesto delivered by some lawmakers after two democratic socialist candidates backed by Mamdani won election to the House from New York.
“I’m not interested in writing a manifesto or, frankly, in reading one. I’m interested in delivering, and that’s exactly what we’ve been showing,” Mamdani said during a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D) signed on to the manifesto that ties the Democratic party to capitalism over socialism and defends a “growing, fair, and competitive economy that rewards hard work, innovation, entrepreneurship and ownership”
The move by Gottheimer aligns with establishment Democrats who say socialism has no room in the Democratic party while arguing New York campaign victories won’t translate to national races in November dubbing.
Democratic socialists endorsed by Mamdani won big in Tuesday primaries across the Empire State ousting incumbent Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.).
Mamdani argued that “at the core of Tuesday’s results was a message from Democratic voters across the largest city in the United States of America about the kind of politics they want to see” in his interview with Jonathan Karl.
The mayor touted results on free childcare, increased public services and other affordable policies.
“We don’t have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we’ve delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible. We’ve delivered free childcare for two year olds for the first time in New York City history. We’ve delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords,” Mamdani said.
“We’ve delivered 165,000 potholes being paved, and we’ve done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city’s history. That’s what it looks like to have democratic socialism, and what you’re seeing is that New Yorkers experienced this for six months and made the decision that they wanted to see more of it on the national stage as well,” he added.
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