The meeting itself was important. On July 18, Zohran Mamdani, the freshly minted antiestablishment winner of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, traveled to Brooklyn to sit down, for the first time, with Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader of the House and one of the most powerful people in New York’s political establishment. The two men covered plenty of complicated ground in one hour, including Mamdani’s proposals to lower the cost of living and Jeffries’s determination to win back a majority in the 2026 midterms.

Yet nearly as significant as what the two men said while talking face-to-face was the message Mamdani had sent the night before, on TV. During an interview on Inside City Hall , the city’s highest-profile political news show, Mamdani said he wou

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