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You're the one on whom we all depend All right, so we got a cool one for you today,

a conversation with New York City mayoral candidate, Zoran Mabdani.

Currently, Mabdani is a member of the New York State Assembly.

He's a Democratic socialist running in the Democratic primary against a pretty busy slate of contenders,

and he's polling second to former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who only recently entered the race.

Now, Mabdani was the first candidate to hit the fundraising threshold for city matching funds,

setting it in record time, and doing it primarily through small

dollar donations. His campaign is extremely organized, and it's galvanized New Yorkers in every borough

with a stunning clarity of message. Now, in many ways, to me at least, Zoran has captured the

zeitgeist, as it feels like his campaign is a proxy for the discontent felt not just in urban areas, but throughout the country.

So it's my great pleasure to welcome to the show, Zoran Mabdani.

UNFDR.

So Zoran Mabdani, the man who is meeting the moment, who has captured the zeitgeist, as we said in the introduction, not just for New York City, but really kind of proxy for what's happening all over the country right now.

Great pleasure to have you on the show.

Thanks for making the time today.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's a real pleasure.

So our program is a socioeconomic program primarily, and we come at it from, I will say,

generally a democratic socialist perspective. So our audience's ears are pretty well tuned to

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