"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall, Mamdani, who will be the city's first Muslim mayor, said."
"So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up, Mamdani said, to raucous applause."
Zohran Mamdani will enter City Hall with a firm plan to counter politics of division and cronyism that helped elevate Donald Trump. New York will present itself as a light in political darkness and prioritize standing up for immigrants, the trans community, Black women, single mothers, and others facing economic hardship. Mamdani will reject Islamophobia as a path to electoral success and aims to dismantle conditions that enable concentration of power. Defeating Trump is framed as dismantling those conditions and preventing future similar figures. Policy goals include holding landlords accountable, ending corruption favoring the billionaire class, and expanding labor protections.
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