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All In with Chris Hayes

Full Zohran Mamdani town hall with Chris Hayes

All In with Chris Hayes

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

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4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces supporters and skeptics in a primetime town hall hosted by Chris Hayes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We are coming to you tonight from my own hometown, the borough of the Bronx, New York,

0:04.5

just down the street from Yankee Stadium. And for the next hour, I, some other folks who live here

0:08.7

are going to talk to the man who just a little over 100 days ago stepped into what some have

0:13.2

called the second toughest job in America, the mayor of New York City.

0:20.7

New York City is so much bigger than you think.

0:23.6

Eight and a half million people, a hundred different ethnicities, speaking 200 different

0:29.6

languages, the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, the largest Muslim population

0:34.6

in the hemisphere, the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia,

0:39.6

more black residents than any city in the U.S., the most billionaires on planet Earth,

0:44.8

with millions of others living below the poverty line.

0:47.8

And believe it or not, more Trump voters than in any one of a dozen red states that elected it.

0:53.8

This past November, this city, for its 112th mayor, voters than in any one of a dozen red states that elected it.

1:00.0

This past November, this city, for its 112th mayor, chose this guy.

1:03.6

How's it going, guys? Do you have 60 seconds to talk just about the election?

1:10.8

Zoramam Dhani came from near obscurity to change the way winning campaigns are run. New York, will you accept this rose?

1:12.5

With a populist message to do something about the cost of living.

1:16.4

How about the cost of living?

1:17.6

It sucks.

1:18.1

We're going to make buses fast and...

1:21.2

His rise made him a rock star on the left and a boogie man on the right.

1:25.3

We put in a communist and no one is safe. I have friends of

1:28.6

mine in New York. They are officially depressed and scared. And even if he's managed to tame the man

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