WEBVTT - Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Dem. Primary 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:07.640 Cool Zon Media. This is it could happen here. I'm 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.640 Garrison Davis. Today I'm joined by Mia Wong. I am 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:15.520 reporting from the beautiful and sunny People's Republic of New 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.480 York City, and we are Zoe back. It is Clover 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.759 Dimes Squares on suicide Watch. Zomentum is sweeping the nation. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.800 Zoramum Donnie has won the Democratic primary for the mayor 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.560 of New York City, beating veterans sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.000 It was it was quite a night in New York 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.640 last night. We are recording this Wednesday morning. The final 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.040 ranked vote will be done in about a week, but 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.800 Cuomo has conceded the race to Zoron, who has declared 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.199 a pretty decisive victory. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.960 It's been very funny. Seeing the dashing and weeping of 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.120 the Quotmo camp has been very funny. New York has 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.720 officially been upgreen from a Tier two to a Tier 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.800 one point five Chinese city. Given give it another decade, 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.440 it'll it will have entered Chinese civilization. The vibes are good. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.399 The vibes are good well. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.560 The only difference is that now we will have an 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.160 actually communist government in a city instead of the fake 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.720 state capitalist governments of the Chinese mega. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:26.759 City objectively more Communists to one point five Chinese city government. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.639 An American bogeeli Uh. It was. It was a pretty 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.800 exciting night in New York last night. I and many 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.880 people were not expecting a clear result so soon. I 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.920 think Cuomo conceded around ten to thirty as the vote 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.679 was still coming in, but it was pretty clear that 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:51.960 Zoron did a like very very impressive, very impressive sweep, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.080 really solid turnout across the boroughs. Just to like get 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.000 a sense of like where we were at, Like I 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.640 got to announce to of a pretty a pretty large 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.080 room full of trans people at the Metropolitan Bar that 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.840 Cuomo conceded to Zoron, and Zoron has won. And I 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:13.480 had not felt better in months. It was really invigorating. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.640 This was like the first like ray of hope in 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.520 a political sense that I've that that it's been like 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.160 so deeply felt nothing ever happens, camp is is is 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:28.520 finally finally taking it. So jover for nothing ever happens. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.840 The shear, the sheer like joy and excitement being in 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.480 like a room of like one hundred, one hundred queer people, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.560 as as as Cuomo gets defeated and Zoron securing the primary. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.960 It was it was just invigorating. In many ways, this 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.760 feels a lot bigger than even like AOC's win a 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.560 few years ago. And it feels so much more real 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.000 than like the Sanders campaign really ever did, because New 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.200 York is such as like a it's such a condensed, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.040 concentrated area. Now it has not quite like an inevitability, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.160 but of a pretty strong certainty of what's going to 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.519 happen come November in the general election. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.240 Yeah, And I think the thing that's maybe in some 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.160 ways the biggest deal about this is that New York 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.320 was like the capital of the giant sort of right 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.560 wing backlash inside the Democratic Party to twenty twenty Yeah, right, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.560 Like this is the city that elected Eric Adams in 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:25.240 twenty twenty one. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.880 Right, Like it just straight up a cop is ruled 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.520 for like four years by just like. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:36.240 This unhinged corrupt alliance of like fucking real estate developers 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.200 and like unhinged right wing billionaires and the cops who 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.720 ran this really really effective sort of politics of like 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.080 the demonization of unhoused people and like anti immigrant politics 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.440 and the shift right in this in the Neu Democratic 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.520 Party like single handedly shifted the entire country to the right. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.920 You could literally see where the New York media market 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.600 was in the twenty twenty two elections. You could see 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.080 on them map who was getting the news because it 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.760 was so right wing. And that's just broken, that whole thing, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.480 Like this place was just like which was like the 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.920 capital of the kind of revolution broke and that whole 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.920 tide like you can it's you know, in the same 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.360 way that like Hunters Thompson talked about how you could 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.920 see like you could see them with the tide of 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.360 the sixties broke standing in Vegas, Like sitting here right now, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.920 you can see the place where the tide of that 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.880 right wing surge in New York broke. And it was 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.120 last night we saw their high points. Yeah, they couldn't 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.760 elect the fucking sexual predator. That was as far as 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:33.320 they could go. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.680 A Cuomo too, Like, like I know some people are 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.280 slightly annoyed about like the outsized influence of the New 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:45.440 York mayoral election affecting everybody who's like online and cares 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.120 about politics in the United States and even and even abroad. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.280 But this is like not not only as New York, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.359 like the biggest city in the country. This is like 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.880 more so a representative battle for the future of the party, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.599 and like what the future of democratic politics, not just 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.760 the Democratic Party but literally like like democracies and like 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.479 what the future of politics in this country is going 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.960 to be is kind of emblematic over how this race went. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.719 Are we going to go back to the same old 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:21.760 establishment dem Party stuff, Clinton's Cuomos, Obama, Biden Harris or 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.240 are we actually going to legitimately chart a new course 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.560 forward to counter this fascist element taking power across the 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.960 country and against nearly all odds, and like thirty million dollars, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.120 the underdogs actually would and pulled it off really strongly, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.640 and this really is like the battle for the future 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.240 of the party. Early turnout was massive for this primary. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.160 In the final three days of early voting, we saw 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.520 like the youngest demographic of voters come out in high 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.080 high numbers. One quarter of early voters were first time 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.440 Democratic primary participants, and young voters between the ages of 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.320 twenty five and thirty four made up the largest share 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.640 of early turnout. And this was all up against the 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:08.080 entire forces of the Democratic Party establishment coming together in 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.960 the past few months, just specifically to stop Mamdanni from 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.159 taking the primary election. There was twenty five million dollars 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.240 of super pac funding behind Entrew Cuomo, which is the 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.159 largest in New York City mayoral history. This pack was 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.240 backed by Michael Bloomberg, Door Dash, Bill Ackman Trump funder, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.159 and this pack allowed Cuomo backers to spend three times 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.520 as much money than what Quomo's actual campaign legally can. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.719 In comparison, Mamdannie's pack had just one point two million 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.320 dollars plus five hundred thousand in anti Cuomo spending from 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:47.599 the Working Families Party. In an attempt to seal the deal, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:53.920 the Cuomo team got the coveted Bill Clinton endorsement, really 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.000 really forming like the toucher's alliance with Cuomo. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.360 And Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, there's world more sex 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:02.520 pest for you to endorse. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:08.039 It's time for you to endorse Donald Trump. What moral 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:12.000 job like that? That really was like emblematic of like 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.600 the type of Democratic party that Mamdanie was up against, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.520 right and the one that working people of New York 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.880 and people around the country we're hoping might finally get 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.200 defeated after it's won one over on Sanders for the 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:30.280 past like eight years, and last night it finally happened. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.080 Yeah. And I also want to say, like, this is 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.920 not just when we're talking about the sort of political 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.360 apparatus of the Democratic Party being deployed in support of Cuomo. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.760 It wasn't just like the DoorDash guys like bringing out 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.040 their checkbook. It was like the actual internal political machines 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.640 of a whole bunch of very very important and influential 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.480 local and sort of mid level political officials, through their 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.120 entire political machines behind Cuomo and then got fucking rolled 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.640 in ways that are just absolutely hysterical. Entire political machines 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.920 basically just got annihilated trying to stop this. It was 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.240 It reminds me in a lot of ways of like 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.360 the way that like a bunch of the old machines 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.400 broke in in Chicago with with Brandon Johnson were like 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.920 you wed like Mike Madigan making one last appearance the 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.040 most powerful figure in Illinois politics for thirty years and 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.840 just gets crushed in that election. So this was both 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.240 a money efforts and a were using your political machines 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:31.440 on the ground to try to do this, and they 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.200 fucking lost. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.760 And it rules there were photo shopping images of Zoron 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.640 to make him look more brown and Muslim. Yeah, they 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.280 were making his beard longer, they were making his skin 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.280 and his hairy darker. Like, they were pulling out all 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.560 the stops and it didn't work. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.080 It was a Clinton two thousand and eight, like Barack 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.480 Hussein Obama, like burther conspiracy shit. Yeah, like, that's the 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.400 last time I remember this party being this racist, like 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.000 very specifically in these lines. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.600 And it failed, and it didn't work. It failed. We'll 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.360 talk about some of the actual results and Zorn's campaign 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:19.520 itself after this break. All Right, we are back. It's 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.280 a beautiful sunny day in New York. It's actually way 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.760 too hot. There's a massive heat wave going through the 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.600 entire East coast. New York has been like one hundred 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.480 degrees the past few days. Thank god, it was one 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.080 hundred degrees on the day of the election. It kept 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.360 all those Cuomo supporters home. We're calling him Mandate of Heaven, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.400 Mandani good stuff. So let's let's let's talk about the 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.000 actual results so far. So as of as of this morning, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.840 Wednesday morning, we got ninety three percent of the vote 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.880 in on the first rank. Mundanni has forty three point 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:57.120 five percent versus Cuomo's thirty six point four and zorn 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.320 Ally brad Lander with eleven point three, followed by a 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.000 whole bunch of others. Now, really, as soon as like 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.319 numbers started coming in, like after the early vote, which 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.080 which we expected Woul would lean in favor of Zoran, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.040 but after more and more results started coming in, Manhattan 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.480 started to looking more and more orange. And that's the 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.719 that's color at the times as using for Zoron. And 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.800 this was the first like sign for me that Zora 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.080 might be having a pretty good night, because people were 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.440 expecting that you know, pretty big chunks of Manhattan and 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.840 certainly like Staten Island in the Bronx would be would 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.000 be going towards Cuomo decisively or at least if this 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.760 if this was going to be Cumba's night, that's what 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.440 we would be seeing. And that's not what happened. The 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.400 northern tip of Staten Island leaning towards Mom Donnie, and 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.160 really most of Manhattan except for the upper west side 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.079 and the upper east side went to Zoron. And that 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.160 is like super super I guess, like surprising, but like 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.760 positive surprise, like surprisingly, this is this is like this 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.160 is great. Yeah, like a really really strong night. Yeah. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.120 One of the most interesting trends of this was that 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.880 Mondommy just just absolutely annihilated like every Asian district up 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.800 up fifteen, up fifteen and not Okay, so you would 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.120 kind of expect this in South Asian districts. He went 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:21.120 into a bunch of what are generally pretty conservative, like 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.600 like Chinese districts and like Queens and shit, and just 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.880 fucking rolled them. Yeah, like in like South Brooklyn, like 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.920 a very very powerful sort of like right wing Chinese 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.439 political machine like went to war against them, just annihilated. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:34.120 Right. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.240 The Asian vote in general had kind of been trending 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.560 right in the last half a decade based on sort 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.960 of like anti immigrant shit, anti homeless shit and all 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.199 of that, just like instantly pivoted. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.560 Everything's out. The astoria in Queens just just full full 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.439 zor on. Yeah, and like just rolled these districts. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.200 And I think this is a thing where I think 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.720 we're gonna talk more about the ice stuff later, but 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.560 I genuinely think part of what we're starting to see 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.079 here is like. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.480 Brad Lander, who and the MVP brad Lander honestly like 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.400 like a critical part of this who knows to him 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.920 like absolutely, Like we certainly have different opinions on some 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.280 key issues, but he really pulled out the stops to 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.800 make sure that Cuomo does not get in and helped 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.760 Mamdanni defend against some pretty pretty horrific yeah is homophobic attacks. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.520 Yeah, and like, and that alliance I think was actually 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.240 was really really important because it meant that the kind 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.920 of like left flank of the liberals and the progressives 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.880 and sort of social democrats weren't fighting each other, which 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.360 has been what's happening in like fucking every other city. Yeah, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.040 is that these two factions go to war and then 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.800 like just the fucking sex predators win the election because 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.480 of it, and shere you get a very very important 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.319 strategic alliance that allows a bunch of people to vote 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:46.520 for Mamdanni who wouldn't have And this, this sort of 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:52.119 alliance that they've forged here was just like stunningly successful, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.440 basically like outperformed expectations basically everywhere. I think this is 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.880 also a kind of decisive anti ICE thing because both 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.360 Mamdanni and have been actually straight up on the front 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.680 lines of like anti I stuff. Lander famously got arrested 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.000 for trying to get in the way of a just 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.200 hideously illegal disappearance of one of his constituents and got 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.560 fucking arrested for it. And I think that stuff we're 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.080 seeing the political impacts of everyone being like, holy shit, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.480 they're trying to deport like every no migration in this country. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.480 Yeah. Madanni up six points with the Hispanic up five 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:33.800 with white plus fifteen Asian. Quomo is up eighteen percent 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.960 with the black vote, and Quomo like underperformed there too, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.000 he did underperform. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:38.440 Yeah. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:43.520 One thing that's interesting is the medium income levels. Mamdani 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.400 did better with middle class and high income vote middle 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.240 class up ten, high income up thirteen, whereas Cuomo did 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.559 better up thirteen with lower income, which I mean, this 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.679 is like some classic We see this a lot in 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:03.160 like national elections, where like people vote against their own interests. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.760 This is weird. This is like what the Republican Party 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.360 gets so much of their support from. So this is 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.160 also like education bracket difference. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:13.720 Yeah, and I think some of it also is like 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.679 a lot of the voters who would have voted vandor 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.680 and would not have supported Mamdani, like were given permission 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.320 to back him, and that boosted his vote share. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.720 A lot, Yes, but like in terms of like why 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.320 lower income is swinging towards Cuomo. Yeah, specifically people making 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.320 under fifty k year swinging more towards Cuomo, even though 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.120 Zoran is running a campaign specifically for those people. That 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.720 is also largely up in the Bronx. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.480 I will also say, like, the other thing that's very 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.640 weird about the way these are tabulated is because it's 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.680 it's tabulated by area, not by the actual people, yes, correct, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.680 which means you can get these things where like you 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.280 see this Trump sometimes where like it looks like he's 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:53.760 doing really well in like. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.360 A district with like a really with like really low. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.840 Median income, But what's happening is like every single rich 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.080 person in that district voted and then no one else did. Yeah, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.240 So the numbers are a bit weird when when when 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.640 you're looking at these sort of like priestin counts. Yeah, votes, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.920 but yeah, it's it's been a I don't know, it's 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.640 a it is a constant trend in the bar Oho. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.680 I guess this is everything that was actually very very 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.800 different from Chicago, where in Chicago it was like basically 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.720 pure income line for Brandon Johnson, the sort of like 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.320 vaguely left person. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.600 There is like New York is a very like middle 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.760 class city in a lot of ways, Like there's a 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.160 lot of people in the middle class bracket, a lot 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.240 of people in the lower class bracket as well, but 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.680 in terms of like like medium income levels, there's like 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.520 a huge, huge number of like middle class voters. Specifically, 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.320 like the vote map for the for the middle income 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:48.600 is so much bigger. I think it is worth highlighting 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:53.320 what made Zorn's campaign special, right, Like people are probably 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.560 pretty familiar with like the slick videos, which, yeah, he 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.560 was really good at making videos. He is a great communicator, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.400 probably his biggest, biggest strength is his ability to be 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.760 like personable and is of just a pretty good public speakers, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.720 great at communication. His mom's a relatively well known filmmaker, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.400 and not super surprising that he put he put a 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.880 lot of work into making sure his like online tv 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.920 as were like top notch. One of the more unique 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.600 things that he did is a huge focus on multi 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.320 language outreach, which like, obviously New York is a city 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.200 of like dozens and dozens and dozens of languages, and 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.360 the Quoto campaign did not focus on that, but This 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.920 was a huge, huge focus of Zoron's campaign. Like when 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.760 you signed up for phone banking, you got to go 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.640 through a massive drop down menu of languages to phone banking, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.760 and Zoron himself was like speaking multiple languages. On the 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:53.040 campaign trail, he had a huge, huge volunteer ground game. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.880 It was canvassing door Knox phone banking. My apartment had 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.160 people stop in multiple times in the past week alone. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.360 The biggest focus of his campaign itself was a focus 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.840 on affordability. I want to Play a ad that started 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.040 running on TV and online about two weeks ago. This 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.960 is one of his less personal ads, right like as 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.800 opposed to his ads where he's like walking around New 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.000 York talking to people, like addressing straight to camera, that 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:18.560 kind of stuff, which is kind of in the staple 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.280 of his campaign. So like this ad is not that 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.040 it is more like a classic political ad, but I 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.600 think it still hits really hard. And like this this 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.840 one like kind of brain wormed itself into my head 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.560 because of how like concise it is, and it hits 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.159 so many things that even because of like the last 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.240 like general election, right like the twenty twenty four presidential 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.600 it reflects the things that a lot of voters are 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.320 concerned about which is affordability, even if that means they 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.679 will vote against their interests and vote in support of 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.960 these like crazy tariffs. But I'm going to play this 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.639 thirty second ad here. There is a myth about this city. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.200 It's the lie that life has to be hard in 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.280 New York. I believe we can dare tchep for groceries, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.040 we can raise the minimum wage, we can freeze the 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.320 rent for more than two million tenants and build hundreds 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.040 of thousands of affordable homes. It city government's job to 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.520 deliver that. We are done settling for less. Are you 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:16.040 ready for. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:20.840 A city we can afford? A witness? Right? Do you 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.600 posy rendering licens? So that was the main app that's 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.199 been going across TV the past two weeks. This is 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.160 this is his like final final push, and it addresses 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.280 this like a conception of New York that's definitely been 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:35.600 in my mind ever since I was a kid. I 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.159 always thought, this is a city you can only live 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.760 in if you're you know, very rich, if you're well off, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.800 and like, upon visiting here for the first time, I 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.720 just realized how much that isn't true, how much this 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.879 is like actually a working class city. How many people 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.320 keep this massive like concrete machine running who do not 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.760 live in like a Manhattan penthouse. Obviously, and yes it 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.560 can be challenging, but we've like almost abandoned this place 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.560 as like a zone of combat, as like a place 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.520 to actually like build like an affordable, an affordable, stable life. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.720 And to see a candidate just directly address this is 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.600 so invigorating. He ran on freezing the rent free buses, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.520 a pilot program for city run grocery stores, free to 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.119 low cost childcare, raising minimum wage, and he didn't cave 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:24.119 or waiver on controversial issues or apologize or redact for 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.600 past statements. He got really good at deflecting when people 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.800 asked him about like previous statements about how you know, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.720 the NYPD is terrible. He did really good about moving 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.119 towards talking about how NYPD should not be handling people 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.360 in like mental health crises, how there should be other 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.359 public safety workers who can help people in distress who 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.880 are not the NYPD, and just a very very slick 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:52.280 job handling some like massive massive amounts of anti woke attacks, 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.960 referencing like the twenty twenty era of politics. Let's go 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.240 on a break and then talk about his acceptance speech 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:15.800 and the reaction from the National Democrat and Republican parties. Okay, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:23.359 we are so back. So the past few months, Democrats 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.239 have been asking this question like, how do we how 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.520 do we reach young voters, how do we reach the 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.000 young white to male vote. We need like a Joe 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.000 Rogan of the left, all these types of crazy things. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.920 And you had this guy Zorrod who started to get 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:42.400 massively popular with young people, including young young men, and 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.160 that you saw this entire party mobilized to stop him, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.200 to suppress any any movement that Zorna was able to make. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.520 And David Hogg, who is currently also being rat fucked 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:59.080 by the Democratic National Committee, has been campaigning with zor 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.639 On the past few weeks and he he said a 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.119 few days ago, quote, the same establishment that is spending 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.440 millions to destroy Zoron will say in a few months 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.800 that we need to spend millions on polling and testing 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:13.080 to win back young people. Open your goddamn eyes. It's free. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.119 And yeah, he's right, this is the solution. The solution 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:18.879 is staring them in the face, and they were wanting 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:19.679 to stop it. 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.320 Ye, young people are begging you to co opt them, 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.600 and they won't do it because they know what they 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.360 would rather have Nazis and one percent higher taxes. 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.920 They want to be co opted and like actually fight 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.959 for something, like actually have something to strive for, and 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.119 like that's something that the Democrats have been so resistant 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.320 to the past eight years. Like even even Joe Biden's 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.679 campaign wasn't like fighting for anything, it was to like 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.040 return to normal. Kruml Heris's campaign wasn't really fighting for 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:48.800 anything either. It was just to stop Donald Trump. And 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:52.080 this is like this campaign wasn't just about beating Cuomo. 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.760 It was also about like envisioning an actually positive future 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.679 of the city. And I was legitimately surprised that Cuomo 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.760 can seated so early on in his speech he said, quote, 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.440 tonight was not our night, Tonight is his night. He 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:09.840 deserved it. He won. And from the moves that Quem 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.480 was making, it seems like he's probably not gonna run 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.240 as an independent in the general like he maybe have 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.200 been planning to if it was closer. It does not 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.680 seem to be going that direction. It seems like he's 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.960 kind of realized that his career is finished. Yeah, he 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:30.520 got rolled go back to the suburbs. Motherfucker Ugh Chuck 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:35.199