Special interview with Zahran Mamdani - Pakistan

Special interview with Zahran Mamdani - Pakistan The first question is, obviously, is New York ready? New York is a diverse city that welcomes people of all faiths and races from all over the world. But right now, it's a polarized environment.

It's a polarized environment in which President Trump has been elected, and he's just been elected president of the United States. He's clearly talking about tax cuts for big corporations.

Furthermore, he's clearly anti-immigrant. You're the candidate for socialist Muslim immigrants. Is New York ready? I think yes, I'm definitely ready.

And you know, the conversations I've had. In the whole of New York City, in the five boroughs, I just heard that it's the most expensive city in the United States and it's made it very difficult for working-class New Yorkers to be able to afford this city.

And this whole campaign is focused on affordability, on making the city affordable, on freezing fares, on making buses free, on universal childcare, and when I talk to people about this campaign and its focus, they see their own struggles in it because

More and more New Yorkers are being priced out. They are pushing the city out of the city, and they are. They are ready for a new generation of leadership, and they know it.

Muslims are just like other New Yorkers. We want and deserve the same things: equality and respect. Finally, it’s time to show it.

City politics can look like the city. I mean, and when we look from the outside, it’s clear that right-wing politics is on the rise around the world, especially in the West, and people may not be so welcoming,

but when you go to the voters, what kind of welcome do you get? A very welcoming welcome that a Muslim immigrant could be mayor of New York. Yeah, you know,

The thing is, when you talk to New Yorkers, it’s a very different conversation. It’s about the issues in their lives. Every time you talk to these corporate packs and these billionaires,

you see that they are focused on trying to divide New Yorkers. Because this election is still seven days away and that's what Andrew and I are.

Reese and his campaign are taking millions of dollars from Republican billionaires, and they are using that money to design mailers. Grow my beard artificially that will turn black.

My beard that New Yorkers ask. They are afraid of me, and they are the candidates for it. Describe me as a monster. That's how they describe me. I am at the door.

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That's the language. Islamophobia. You were elected to be a U.S. official in this city and a leading candidate for mayor.

So, when these things happen, you think they are. Trying to divide New Yorkers, but when you actually talk to New Yorkers, then

You will hear that they are hungry for a new leadership, and what do they think? Being a good Muslim is just being a good person. It means helping those in need

and hurting someone, and in the end, I was ready for that. Understand your place in this world, it is my responsibility to make it better. And former Governor Andrew Cuomo has certainly been plagued by scandals,

but in the recent debate, you narrowed your margin on them, which was 40 percent in a short period of time and 40 percent in a short period of time in the campaign. In one poll, you even appear to be ahead.

but in the recent debate, they attacked you on the grounds that you are young and inexperienced. The seat you are running for is a very complex city. One of the most important cities in the world.

A 33-year-old inexperienced young man cannot run this city. So, how do you prove that people should vote for you? And not for experience? You know, I ask New Yorkers,

What we need right now, do they have the answer? What kind of experience do we need? Because I see Andrew Kormos, experience? And I see it.

The experience of cutting medical funding, having millions in the public transit system, having more sexual harassment than women, claiming to fight for working people but giving tax breaks to wealthy taxpayers,

Finally, the kind of experience that I said was a publicity crisis, I don't have, I don't have. I thought I didn't have experience fighting because I didn't have experience fighting a war.

Thousands of working-class taxi drivers, many of us are locals, about 40% of us come from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and they've been cheated. In this city, and I thought with thousands.

Many of them for months, and we secured $450 million for those drivers. Interview that you are the only candidate who has used the word "genocide" in reference to what is happening in Palestine and Gaza

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. You have been asked repeatedly, "New York is a city with the second largest Jewish population after Israel, so are you offending your Jewish voters?" What is the reaction there?