Mamdani: ‘So Many of Our Victories Were in Neighborhoods that Went for Donald Trump’

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MAMDANI: “And there are so many New Yorkers who previously hadn’t voted in primaries, who saw themselves now in this politics, saw their struggles in our policies, and took that step to actually cast a ballot. And what excites me is that there are moments where someone will cast a ballot for someone with an exclusionary vision, like Donald Trump, and they can still come back to the Democratic Party. And so many of our victories were in neighborhoods that went for Donald Trump in the presidential election. We’re talking about College Point or Dyker Heights, so many of the same places we were told that we had now lost voters forever. And instead, what we found is that if you have a relentless focus on an economic agenda and you welcome people back, and you turn the political instinct from lecturing to listening, you can still have people come home to the Democratic Party, as long as you show them. That’s a party that will fight for working people, not those that are benefiting off the struggles of working people."