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Zohran Mamdani, the alleged Democratic candidate for the mayor in New York, said on Sunday that he did not think of existing billionaires.
Asked directly if the billionaires should have the right to exist, Mamdani, who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, told NBC News ” putting the press “,” I do not think we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment in our state and our country, and ultimately, which we need more in our city and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state and in our state, “”
“And I can’t wait to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city just for everyone,” he added.
His remarks come when wealthy people in New York embroidered Mamdani in the days that followed to become clear that he would be the alleged candidate.
Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge -based fundraising manager who supported President Donald Trump in the past, is committed to using his money on Thursday to finance a challenger in Mamdani in the general elections.
“The policies of (Mamdani) would be disastrous for New York. Socialism has no place in the economic capital of our country. The capacity in New York to offer services to the poor and the needy, not to mention the average New Yorker, depends entirely on NYC in NYC a tax environment and a place where rich residents are arranged at 183 days and to assume the associated tax burden “, ACKMAN Riche”, Avan wrote In a post on X.
“Above all, there are hundreds of millions of dollars in capital available to support a competitor of Mamdani who can be set up overnight (believe me, I am in text channels and WhatsApp groups) so that a large alternative candidate does not spend time raising funds.
On Sunday, Mamdani also talked about his plans to increase taxes on the richest people living in the Big Apple, saying that the moderator of “Meet the press”, Kristen Welker, “In the end, the reason I want to increase these taxes on the most profitable 1%, is to increase the quality of life for all, including those that will be imposed.”
He awarded his plan to increase taxes on the rich as one of the key principles of his platform which helped him win the primary.
“We see that our vision of taxing 1% of New Yorkers – these are New Yorkers who earn a million dollars a year or more – and our proposal is to tax them by an additional 2%, is something that has wide support, and we will continue to increase this support in the coming months.”
Mamdani also faced criticism – including President Donald Trump – Who calls him a communist.
“I’m not a communist,” said Mamdani on Sunday, in response to a question about Trump’s comments.
On Sunday, in a separate interview on Fox News which was recorded on Friday, Trump again spoke of Mamdani, threatening to withdraw federal funding from New York if the next mayor does not “do the right thing”.
“But let’s say this: if he comes in, I’m going to be president, and he will have to do the right thing where they will not get money, he has to do the right thing,” the president told Fox News, Maria Bartiromo.
Mamdani added in his answer: “I already had to start getting used to it, to get used to the fact that the president will speak of my appearance, my way of appearing, from where I am, who I am, finally, because he wants to distract from what I fight, and I fight for the very worked people that he has launched a campaign to allow me since then.”
A key goal of Mamdani’s campaign was to talk about affordability and the economy, a point he made on “Meet the Press” on Sunday when he asked why he thought he won.
“It was the accent placed on the fact that we live in the most expensive city in the United States of America. It is also the richest city in the richest country in world history, and yet 1 in 4 New Yorkers lives in poverty, and the others are apparently trapped in a state of anxiety,” said Mamdani.
He added: “And what we have seen is that it is a city that must be affordable for the people who build it every day. Our goal was exactly this, and keeping this on an economic program, we have shown New Yorkers that it could be more than a simple museum of what could be a testimony and a testimony of life and the possibility. “
