S6 Ep7: New Yorkers Brace for Mamdani (with Harry Siegel)

The Focus Group Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Zohran Mamdani, the young, telegenic, democratic socialist state assemblyman, looks set to be New York City's next mayor. So how are New Yorkers feeling about turning the keys over to him? We asked some of his supporters and detractors. Harry Siegel, senior editor at The City, returns to the show to give his two cents on one of the wilder New York City races in recent memory.

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0:53.3	Hello everyone and welcome to the Focus Group podcast.
0:59.7	I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bullwork, and this week is the first show in a series of the big off-year elections of 2025.
1:08.7	I am, of course, talking about the New York mayoral race. This is a big one,
1:13.5	not because there's that much doubt about the outcome. It looks like Zoran Mamdani, the Democratic
1:18.0	socialist state assemblyman, who is up about 15 points in most polling averages, which is still
1:23.8	worse than a generic Democrat. So he's going to be the next mayor, barring some wild pollingness.
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