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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha discusses daily life and survival in Gaza under Israel's siege and control. Plus: Glenn breaks down Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City primary and what the young democratic socialist candidate's victory over Andrew Cuomo means for the future of the Democratic party.
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0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Wednesday, June 25th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, |
0:20.4 | our live |
0:20.9 | nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, |
0:26.5 | the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, Zoran Mamdani, who had been a relatively obscure |
0:32.9 | member of the New York State Assembly, scored one of the largest political upsets in New York City politics last night, arguably one of the New York State Assembly scored one of the largest political upsets in New York City politics |
0:39.5 | last night, arguably one of the largest upsets in American politics when he won the Democratic |
0:45.0 | Party nomination for mayor of New York City against multiple candidates led by Andrew Cuomo. |
0:51.0 | Back in February, just four months ago, Cuomo had a massive polling lead. |
0:55.6 | He was backed by billionaires, had been New York governor for 10 years until he was forced to |
1:00.1 | resign amid Stambles in 2021. |
1:02.7 | He's a sion of one of the most beloved dynastic families and all of New York politics |
1:07.8 | with his dad, Mario Cuomo, having been a popular two-term New York governor |
1:11.6 | who many thought would run for president and win. |
1:16.4 | Beyond that, the entire Democratic Party establishment and all big money was united against Zoran behind Cuomo. |
1:25.9 | And Zoran was polling back in February at under 1%, just four months ago. |
1:32.1 | Yet he found a way not just to win the city ride waste, but to do so with a very sizable margin. |
1:39.3 | Many on the political right, including people who had never heard of him until about six days ago, |
1:43.3 | and even more so in the establishment Democratic Party politics are absolutely horrified and even terrified by |
1:50.3 | Zoran's win. They're acting as though it's some sort of invasion by al-Qaeda and ISIS combined with |
1:54.9 | Mao's China. In fact, many on the right appear to think that Zoran, who's a leftist Muslim from |
2:00.4 | Uganda, is some sort of |
2:02.3 | unholy love child of Osama bin Laden and Joseph Stalin. Establishing Democrats believe, |
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