Steve Forbes: The Market Atmosphere in NYC Under Mamdani Is ‘a Disaster’

EXCERPT:

ASMAN: “All right, next one. Steve, you mentioned New York and Mamdani, we have to focus on it again. How much more do you think New Yorkers can take, and New York in general how much damage long-term can the Marxist mayor Mamdani do to this city?”
Forbes: “Well, one key thing is if so far the police department has largely been —“ [crosstalk]
ASMAN: “Because of the police commissioner.”
Forbes: “Yes, Tisch.”
ASMAN: “Jessica Tisch.”
Forbes: “Commissioner Tisch. And — but you look at the market in terms of the market atmosphere, it’s a disaster. And this attacks on his second home. But personalizing — he’s about theater and it’s about destruction, about making people scapegoats. Oh, you’re — you’re — you’re the fault of it. And that drives people away, creates a bad atmosphere. So it’s not just who may leave, it’s who’s not going to come that would have come.”