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On the recordJuly 1, 2025
Trump 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 accuses Trump of betraying working-class voters.

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