Tim Miller on Zohran Mamdani: ‘This Should Be a Massive Wake-Up Call for the Democratic Establishment’

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MILLER: “Yeah. Look, I think that his politics is probably going to be closer to Basil’s than to mine, but I think this should be a massive wake-up call for the Democratic establishment. Andrew Cuomo, these guys circled the wagons around Andrew Cuomo. Somebody had to resign in disgrace. Someone that was a sex pest. What was the Rationale for that? They did so. And he spent $25 million on TV to no — or he had a super PAC that spent $25 million to obviously no effect. And he ran a campaign out of 1998. And, you know, that, we’ve seen too much of that from the Democratic establishment. And so, then, here you have this upstart guy, Zohran Mamdani, who ran a campaign for 2025. He was focused on costs, which we were talking about in the first segment. That’s what everybody cares about, no matter what your ideology is right now. He’s focused on costs. He was optimistic. He was affable. He walked the entire length of Manhattan. I think it was on Friday or Saturday, you know, while Cuomo was running a Rose Garden campaign or whatever the equivalent of that is in New York. You know, man of the people, letting people yell at him, letting people disagree with him.”