Former President Barack Obama told Zohran Mamdani “your campaign has been impressive to watch,” and suggested that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election.
Former President Barack Obama called New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future.
The private, roughly 30-minute phone call, which has not previously been reported, was described by two people who participated or were briefed immediately on what had been said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation.
Mr. Obama said that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election on Tuesday. They talked about the challenges of staffing a new administration and building an apparatus capable of delivering on Mr. Mamdani’s agenda of affordability in the city, the people said.
Well fair but I meant in the sense of, you either co-opt the Democrat party, or make a new one.
There isn’t an in-between, and the new one might lose at first, but that’s the case with every new party in every country.
Showing the other parties your politics draw votes will pull their politics towards yours.
Not to mention that if you don’t immediately give up after on election cycle, but continue to do politics outside of the season and into next, you will carve out a larger and larger portion of the base.