Welcome to The Lost Debata Show for Politically Ecclectics.

I'm Robbie Gupta.

And in this podcast, we're going to talk about this New York City mayoral election.

I'm going to welcome on my friend Bradley Tusk, who has been on this podcast many times before.

He's a many-time author.

He owns an independent bookstore in the Lower East Side called P&T Knitware.

He has a series of venture capital and advisory

companies like Tusk Ventures, et cetera, where he's done all kinds of incredible work,

helping companies and political campaigns navigate places like New York City and California,

etc. He was an early advisor to Uber and was smart enough to take his payment and equity, which is why he's living large. He is also a political veteran. He was a very senior official in Illinois government. He was a senior official within the Bloomberg administration. He ran one of Bloomberg's campaigns for mayor.

So he is somebody who actually knows a lot about politics, knows a lot about mayoral elections.

So we're going to unpack what happened yesterday in New York City and point the way forward and ask, is there going to be a general election?

What do we know about Mamdani?

Is he truly a socialist?

Are his ideas workable?

What would we do if he were him?

So you could check this out.

We really bring a spirit of generosity as two people who probably weren't big fans of

Mamdani but are trying to assess the person who we have before us now in an objective way as possible.

And so I think you're going to really love

this one, even if you're not from New York. Let's jump in.

Bradley, welcome to the podcast. Yeah, man. Thanks for having me. Exciting morning. I want to say on the

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