New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the victory of candidates he backed in Tuesday’s primary is an extension of the Democratic Party’s traditions, not a repudiation of it.
“It speaks to what makes so many of us proud to be Democrats,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “It speaks to a vision that goes back to a New Deal understanding of what working people deserve,” referencing the era of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the label given his domestic policies.
“And I’ll tell you that for too long that kind of politics, you can only find it in history books, and we need to bring it back to the present day.”
Mamdani, a…
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