Days out from the 2025 New York City mayoral election, candidate Zohran Mamdani sat down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show for an anticipated interview.
Stewart asked the 33-year-old New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist about his election campaign, as he, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa vie to replace Mayor Eric Adams. The Daily Show host brought up Mamdani's viral campaign walk of the length of Manhattan and the 90,000 volunteers helping him canvas and knock on doors across New York City.
Their discussion ranges from Mamdani's campaign promises and platforms including housing and affordability in New York, to how he views political endorsements and the strategies of engaging younger voters.
"After the presidential election, there were all these obituaries written about the Democratic Party’s ability to motivate young votes," Mamdani said. "There’s just this condescension in the language that we use about young people. I can just tell you that what we found in this campaign is that young people have been at the heart of believing that something could be more than this. "
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