Rich and Co., on today’s edition of The Editors, look at mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s upward trajectory in New York City and discuss why his win in Tuesday’s primary election isn’t all that shocking.

“No one was making a better case about what I’m sure is the most pressing issue for most New Yorkers,” Michael says, “which is that they feel that their money isn’t going as far as it did five, six years ago. They feel squeezed. I don’t think he’s gonna be able to solve it. And I worry about the other effects of his radicalism, but I’m not surprised he won.”

Jack points out that Mamdani, for all his talk about economic issues during his campaign, doesn’t know the first thing about the subject. “I think that this issue of affordability that Michael is right to say [Mamdani] made a centerpiece of his campaign . . . He’s not going to solve it. . . . He doesn’t know anything about economics, but either he or New Yorkers, should he become mayor, will soon get a crash course in what doesn’t work.”

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