The New York mayoral candidate making left-wing economics trendy again
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🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Tomorrow 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will be officially confirmed as the Democratic Party candidate for New York mayor, putting him in pole position to land the role in November. His win caused a political earthquake in America, personifying questions over the future direction of the party. So who is this fresh new face of the Democratic party, and what does his rise tell us about the increasing popularity of left-wing economics?
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Guest: Mehreen Khan, Economics Editor, The Times
Host: Manveen Rana
Producer: Hannah Varrall
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| 0:39.6 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:48.7 | The economics editor of the Times, Marine Khan, is always the first to spot a trend. |
| 0:54.4 | True to form, a few months ago, she saw it coming. |
| 0:59.0 | Mamdani sort of came on my radar on social media, I would say around April time. |
| 1:04.2 | She noticed a new voice popping up on economics podcasts. |
| 1:06.3 | Zoran Mamdani, welcome to the pod. |
| 1:07.3 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:09.5 | Zoran, thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:10.6 | Thank you so much for having you. |
| 1:16.6 | Zoran Mabdani, the man who is meeting the moment, who has captured the zeitgeist. And I noticed that he was somebody I've never heard of. |
| 1:18.6 | He was pretty young, but he had a sort of virality about him. |
| 1:21.6 | And that's because he's really great at talking. |
| 1:23.6 | I think he has a natural sort of charisma. And the thing that really made me |
| 1:28.6 | take notice was that he called himself a democratic socialist. That's a scary word. Socialism? |
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