Zahran Mamdani does not believe that there should be billionaires, but he will work with them

in Interview on NBC’s Meet the press with Christine Wilker On Sunday, he was asked if billionaires had the right to exist.

“I don’t think we should have billionaires, because frankly, it is a lot of money in the moment of inequality,” he said. “In the end, what we need is more than equal in our city, through our state and through our country. I look forward to working with everyone, including billionaires, to form a more just city for them.”

Mamdani was astonished by the political establishment on Tuesday by winning the democratic preliminary elections of the mayor’s race.

Its platform includes free bus services, freezing rents on stable apartments for rent, double the minimum wage to $ 30, build city grocery stores, and long -distance walking taxes at the highest 1 % of the city owners, among other things.

On NBC on Sunday, Mamdani was also asked whether he was a communist, and President Donald Trump accused him of existence.

“No, I am not,” he said. “I have already had to start getting used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, and how I look, where I am, who I am, who I am, because he wants to distract his attention from what I fight for. I am fighting for the working people who managed a campaign to enable him since then.”

Meanwhile, Mamdani’s opponents are looking for the city’s general elections on November 4. Current mayor Eric Adams is now running for his re -election as an independent procedure after losing in the democratic preliminary elections. Andrew Como, who was also defeated in the preliminary elections, will remain in the city’s general elections in November on the independent ballot line.

Billionaire Bill Akaman pledged commitment Any mayor’s candidate is able to defeat Mamdani, saying that he and his wealthy partners are ready to commit “hundreds of millions of dollars.”

“If the appropriate candidate raises his hand tomorrow, the money will flow.” to publish To social media on Wednesday.