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On the recordSeptember 6, 2025
The issue here is that all of this is working backwards from President Trump’s desire to try and heighten the odds of any candidate to defeat me, and we are confident that no matter what formulation of this race takes, whether it’s me versus three candidates or me one-on-one with any one of them, we will win the race.
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Zohran Mamdani
Democratic · New York

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Mamdani discusses Trump's influence on the election dynamics.

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