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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

Ultimately, the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is found in the words of Dr. King decades ago, when he said: call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there must be a better distribution of wealth for…

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

For too long, politicians have pretended that we’re spectators to that crisis of affordability. We’re actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like Mayor Adams has done, or to respond to it and resolve it, like I’m doing.

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

This entire race was about the question of affordability, and ultimately I have run a campaign that speaks about the tools that city government actually has to deliver that affordability in the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in…

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

I am a democratic socialist, yes. I started to call myself that after Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign for president, when I finally had a language that described how I saw the world, and the way that I believe the world should be — which is…

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

Democrats spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future, and a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

I’m focused on affordability, and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

This bill represents — in the text of this bill — the largest and greatest loss of health care in American history.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Jul 2, 2025

This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy, and it strips away healthcare and basic dignity of the American people. For what? To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the…

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Jul 1, 2025

The Worst Governor in America Kathy Hochul embraced and fully supported Joe Biden’s catastrophic open border policies.

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Jul 1, 2025

I ask you all today to join us in this effort to SAVE NEW YORK and fire Kathy Hochul in 2026. This is about the people of New York. And it's going to take fighters all across this state to get this done.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jul 1, 2025

This bill, as we have said for months, steals people’s healthcare, jacks up their electricity bill to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 1, 2025

While freezing the rent may sound like a catchy slogan, it is bad policy, short-sighted, and only puts tenants in harm’s way.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 1, 2025

Demands to ‘freeze the rent’ would exacerbate these harmful health and safety issues inside the homes of more than 1 million New Yorkers by depriving owners of the resources needed to make repairs — a cruel and dangerous proposal.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 1, 2025

Rent may be on the rise, but so are deteriorating housing conditions — including inadequate heat and heating breakdowns, mice and rat problems, mold, and leaks — especially for New Yorkers in rent-stabilized housing.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 1, 2025

While the board exercised their independent judgment, and made an adjustment based on elements such as inflation, I am disappointed that they approved increases higher than what I called for.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Jul 1, 2025

During a time when our city should be rejoicing and celebrating members of our diverse LGBTQ+ community, incidents like this are devastating.

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