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.
What?
The current DNC chair has a better progressive track record than Obama.
And Martin didn’t wait to hype up Mamdani either. He won’t endorse before a primary is settled, but within days he was saying Mamdani is what the party should be because that’s what Dem voters want.
Obama’s big progressive claim to fame, is a more progressive version of a health are bill than Mitt Roment was gonna pass.
And what is this about?
Obama abandoned the DNC rather than put someone who would run it how he wanted at the helm, which led to a bankrupt but neoliberal DNC who took Hillary’s offer of funding for control of the DNC during the primary.
Which blocked Bernie.
And led to Hillary losing in the general to trump.
For fucks sake “co-opt what he created”…
Do you know how much better we would be if Obama had just named anyone who wasn’t a neoliberal as chair of the DNC in 09 or 13? We’d be coming off two Bernie terms and probably in AOCs first right now.
Covid would have been handled rationally, healthcare actually sorted. Climate change and wealth inequality addressed, even police abuses.
It ain’t simple cause/effect but it’s not rube Goldberg either, people should be able to put this together