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On the recordJune 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
Democratic · New York

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Mamdani discusses his fight for working people in response to Trump.

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