New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke with NBC’s “Meet the Press” about his first 100 days in office, trying to fulfill his campaign promises, and his relationships with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and President Trump. “Now that you’ve bumped up against the hard realities of a $ 5.4 billion budget shortfall and the other red tape that you have to go through, do you still believe in democratic socialism? Do you still think it can be effective?” Kristen Welker asked. “I believe in it even more than I did the day before,” Mamdani said. “And that’s because of the fact it’s focused on the needs of working people, and working people need that focus, that fight from politicians, more than ever.” “It is the belief that democracy should extend from the ballot box to the rest of our lives. It’s the belief that we should be fighting for each and every person who calls the city home,” he said. “And in a practical sense, it’s the choice to not only deliver the first steps to universal childcare, but to do it while filling in 102,000 potholes, changing 6,700 catch basins, repaving more than 1,000 miles of roadway,” Mamdani said. “Because what we known in our pothole politics and our sewer socialism is that the worth of an ideology can only be judged in its delivery, and that’s what we’re looking to do. We’re looking to deliver.”
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