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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

Ultimately, because he wants to distract from what I’m fighting for, and I’m fighting for the very working people that he ran a campaign to empower, that he has since then betrayed.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

I have already had to start to get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I’m from, who I am.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 29, 2025

We will come up with alternative ways to stimulate the growth of the EV market.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 29, 2025

I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 28, 2025

This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 28, 2025

Donald Trump is not a king and not above the law.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jun 28, 2025

There is something so cruel about promising New Yorkers things you cannot — and have not — delivered on, which is precisely what Zohran Mamdani’s entire platform rests on.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jun 28, 2025

Here’s what Zohran doesn’t want you to know: the only reason those free buses weren’t renewed is because he failed to negotiate it back into the budget the following year.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 28, 2025

It’s balanced, it maintains substantial reserves, and it’s focused on supporting Californians.

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Bill de Blasio
@billdeblasio· Democratic · NY· Jun 28, 2025

He understands as a local elected official how important public safety is to people, and it’s not going to help him achieve his economic agenda if the city isn’t safe.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 28, 2025

As we confront Donald Trump's economic sabotage, this budget agreement proves California won't just hold the line — we'll go even further. It's balanced, it maintains substantial reserves, and it's focused on supporting Californians —…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 27, 2025

He never once brought up the National Guard. He’s a stone cold liar, he said he did.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jun 27, 2025

This has been in my opinion the easiest budget that we had to pass.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jun 27, 2025

This is a major step forward for our city.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jun 27, 2025

That is more than any other major city in America.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 27, 2025

One of the hopes that we had from the very beginning of this campaign was to move our political instinct from lecturing to listening.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 27, 2025

I believe the American people should be able to trust the information they receive from a major news outlet. Until Fox is willing to be truthful, I will keep fighting against their propaganda machine.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 27, 2025

If Fox News wants to lie to the American people on Donald Trump’s behalf, it should face consequences ― just like it did in the Dominion case.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jun 27, 2025

'It would be an honor to have the support of the hardworking men and women of this union. It would be an honor even more than that to have your partnership to make this the greatest City in the world so that every single New Yorker who…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 27, 2025

Until Fox is willing to be truthful, I will keep fighting against their propaganda machine.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 27, 2025

At no point (on June 7) did President Trump raise the demonstrations in Los Angeles which had begun that day, nor discuss the use of the National Guard.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 27, 2025

There was no call. Not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to.

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