"PHILLIP: And the idea that Mamdani has taken ideas that you and many other people think are completely outrageous, that are so extreme, and he is he went from nobody knows who this guy is to being the probable next mayor of the city is something that only a few people do. And one of the people who did that type of thing was Donald Trump. That's my point."
"MCCAUGHEY: You're very perceptive to point that out. But I would say also that the rise of Mamdani in this primary reflects two things, a pathetic failure of our education system that so many of these young people who turned out to support Mamdani, haven't reasoned in their own minds what his crime policies will do to make the streets so unsafe, what his freeze the rent policies will do to turn New York literally into a slum within ear (ph) as this housing stock"
Rep. Ro Khanna confronted remarks on CNN NewsNight after Betsy McCaughey described Zohran Mamdani's rise as evidence of educational failure. Khanna said he never criticized or insulted the intelligence of people who voted for Donald Trump and called for an apology for comments about Mamdani supporters. The panel included Abby Phillip, Hal Lambert, Xochitl Hinojosa, and Roy Wood Jr., and featured cross-talk and comparisons to Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables.' Mamdani emerged as a shock front-runner in a four-way New York City mayoral contest involving Cuomo, Mayor Eric Adams, and Curtis Sliwa, with Donald Trump actively engaged.
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