Valuetainment - ＂Mamdani Is A Symbol Of Radicalization＂- Eric Adams BLASTS Mamdani's Rising Star In NYC Mayoral Race

00:00:00.000 Now, talking about New York, did you think for a moment,

00:00:03.960 you've been a New York native your entire life,

00:00:06.240 captain, NYPD, you know, growing up there,

00:00:11.400 you've seen the trouble, you changed, you know,

00:00:13.220 as a young man, became a leader, run for mayor,

00:00:16.760 and then all of a sudden today you're going up against a guy,

00:00:20.020 the mayoral race that everybody in America is following.

00:00:23.380 Yes.

00:00:23.820 To go on against Azoran Mamdani, who on many ways,

00:00:29.180 you look at it, this is a person that's a communist,

00:00:31.340 this is a person that's openly said how he feels about capitalism,

00:00:33.900 how he said a lot about different things.

00:00:36.360 How did things get to a point that a candidate like this out of nowhere

00:00:39.640 is now being seen as possibly a guy that could win?

00:00:42.500 That's a great question because it's really not out of nowhere

00:00:46.500 those of us who were watching what was taking place on the stage

00:00:51.100 of not only New York City but America.

00:00:53.420 I told my team six months ago, this guy's going to win,

00:00:57.060 and I need to be in a general so that I can go head to head.

00:01:01.040 You heard this six months ago.

00:01:01.660 Six months ago, I sat down with my team, and I said to the reporters,

00:01:05.380 I said, this is going to be the most fascinating race

00:01:08.320 in the history of New York City.

00:01:09.760 Why is that?

00:01:10.240 What happened was he already had a ready-made army that we were ignoring.

00:01:16.600 And if you go back, I was talking about the radicalization of our children

00:01:21.120 on our college campuses to hate America,

00:01:25.260 what we were seeing in the street,

00:01:27.160 10,000 people marching in our street lifting up Hamas.

00:01:31.600 And I was saying our children are being radicalized.

00:01:34.380 And so all he had to do was pop his head up.

00:01:37.640 Once he did that, the army was already a symbol and said,

00:01:42.100 we want to follow someone.

00:01:43.740 And he has become a symbol of the radicalization of our young people

00:01:47.980 across this entire country and specifically in New York.

00:01:52.320 But why, though?

00:01:53.140 I guess the question I want to ask is why.

00:01:54.660 Because the last five years, go COVID, right?

00:01:58.540 If you want to pull up the chart, Rob,

00:01:59.920 that Brandon had on how much money's moved from different states

00:02:03.660 to different places, I mean, New York was known,

00:02:06.560 and many will say till today, as the greatest city in the world, right?

00:02:10.880 New York's been that city, the mecca, the financial capital of the world

00:02:13.880 used to be London, now it's you guys.

00:02:16.060 And Dana White comes and does an event here for UFC two or three years ago.

00:02:20.020 In the interview afterwards, they ask him, they say,

00:02:21.580 so what was UFC like Miami?

00:02:23.480 He said, we broke Madison Square Garden's record.

00:02:27.480 He said, this is what LA used to be.

00:02:29.080 It's the energy New York used to have.

00:02:31.100 I think that's the message that he gave,

00:02:32.760 where now a lot of people are looking at us saying,

00:02:34.900 could Miami become the new New York City?

00:02:37.620 You know, it's a lot of.

00:02:38.980 But then the chart that shows the biggest difference is this.

00:02:41.580 Rob, if you can pull up the numbers with the dollars,

00:02:43.300 I don't know if you have it or not.

00:02:44.740 It shows how much money moved here.

00:02:47.860 Over a trillion dollars of wealth moved out of California.

00:02:51.760 California got the money to go to Texas.

00:02:54.040 New York got the money right here.

00:02:55.680 If you look at this, New York got the money to flow to Florida.

00:02:58.000 This was one of the charts.

00:02:59.760 If you go to the other one, Rob, that shows the dollar amount,

00:03:02.360 you got a couple of them there.

00:03:05.220 Go to the one on the left, the one that shows right there.

00:03:08.420 If you look at this one, the dark purple is New York and California.

00:03:13.020 Right.

00:03:13.220 Over a trillion dollars lost.

00:03:16.120 Then if you look at states that gained plus trillion,

00:03:18.980 the dark green, you'll see Florida.

00:03:21.860 You'll see Texas is less than Florida.

00:03:23.480 But you look at Tennessee, Carolina,

00:03:24.840 and a bunch of other places gained the money.

00:03:27.100 What happened the last five years that caused the business owners

00:03:30.100 and the wealth to leave your state and, more importantly, your city?

00:03:33.760 Well, when you think about what happened after COVID,

00:03:37.400 after COVID, many people felt as though, during COVID,

00:03:41.800 that they were being confined.

00:03:43.000 They wanted to raise their children in an open atmosphere.

00:03:45.600 They wanted to go somewhere that was not that restricted.

00:03:47.780 And then once they explored, once they went to, traveled to Florida,

00:03:53.220 traveled to Connecticut and other areas,

00:03:55.880 they figured out that, you know what, life is a little bit more open.

00:03:59.300 Life is, you get a better bang for your dollar in some of these municipalities.

00:04:04.260 Like, the cost of housing here is far different from New York.

00:04:08.220 Now, that number is changing.

00:04:09.760 It is.

00:04:10.040 Because New Yorkers have arrived.

00:04:12.020 That's right.

00:04:12.200 And they've raised the amount.

00:04:13.420 Many people have said, listen, we don't want you guys down here anymore.

00:04:18.180 But the reality is that once people explored outside of the city

00:04:22.340 and understood that there's a good life outside the city,

00:04:26.620 and there's a different type of personality that you have in the city,

00:04:30.260 just as we lost that money, we gained a large number of young people,

00:04:36.100 particularly tech.

00:04:37.620 A lot of new tech companies opened.

00:04:39.760 We became the hotspot for graduates, the number one location for graduates.

00:04:44.460 New York City.

00:04:45.100 New York City.

00:04:45.780 It became an exciting place.

00:04:47.860 You know, our nightlife is booming.

00:04:49.800 And our economy is the strongest in history.

00:04:52.840 Broadway had the strongest 12 months in history.

00:04:56.260 And so the city is still thriving.

00:04:58.740 But when you have someone like the Democratic primary winner

00:05:02.240 saying that billionaires should not exist,

00:05:05.400 they don't understand the economics.

00:05:06.980 The person who drives a limousine should do well,

00:05:11.160 and a person in the back seat of the limousine should do well.

00:05:14.080 That's the ecosystem that's important for New York City.

00:05:17.240 Rob, can you pull up the clip of Mondani that he's referencing,

00:05:19.660 that he's being interviewed?

00:05:21.380 And the lady who had a couple great interviews with Trump asked,

00:05:24.500 do you believe billionaires should exist?

00:05:26.240 And his answer with a chuckle, he says,

00:05:29.240 I don't think there should be billionaires.

00:05:31.100 And then he says, but I'm willing to work with them.

00:05:33.940 I don't know how those two go together.

00:05:35.440 I don't think there should be billionaires.

00:05:36.860 But I'm willing to work with you to give up your money

00:05:38.580 and lose your billionaire status, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:05:42.040 There's a video of it in an interview.

00:05:43.420 We've had it before.

00:05:44.120 We've shown it.

00:05:45.040 I think that's the one right there.

00:05:46.160 And it's a clear misunderstanding of the economics.

00:05:48.180 When you look at our top one percenters

00:05:50.680 and how they ensure that we have teachers,

00:05:54.480 firefighters, police officers, roads paved,

00:05:57.620 that's the ecosystem that exists.

00:06:00.120 And if you don't understand that ecosystem,

00:06:02.400 your actions can drive out a major portion.

00:06:05.960 Oh, for sure.

00:06:06.700 I mean, you have in your city,

00:06:09.800 Mary, you have 123 billionaires.

00:06:11.600 Number two is 71 or so.

00:06:13.840 Right.

00:06:14.040 You got most of the billionaires living in the city.

00:06:16.220 And here's a question that was asked.

00:06:17.320 I thought it was a very good question.

00:06:18.460 Go for it, Rob.

00:06:19.480 You are a self-described democratic socialist.

00:06:22.600 Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?

00:06:25.160 I don't think that we should have billionaires

00:06:29.000 because, frankly, it is so much money

00:06:31.420 in a moment of such inequality.

00:06:33.500 And ultimately, what we need more of

00:06:35.880 is equality across our city

00:06:37.540 and across our state and across our country.

00:06:39.280 And I look forward to work with everyone,

00:06:41.900 including billionaires,

00:06:42.780 to make a city that is fairer for all of them.

00:06:45.080 Now, when you're speaking to billionaires in your city,

00:06:47.700 at this point, they know you, right?

00:06:49.740 I mean, I saw Bill Ackman posted something.

00:06:52.640 Bill Ackman is a 10 billion auto guy.

00:06:54.160 He's a heavyweight, carries a big stake.

00:06:57.180 He has reputation.

00:06:58.540 He's gone against some of the biggest guys.

00:07:00.060 He's gone against Carl Icahn.

00:07:01.080 He's gone against a lot of people in his career.

00:07:03.080 And he's had to slay a lot of dragons

00:07:05.240 and he's been up and down, right?

00:07:07.640 But he's a tough guy.

00:07:08.680 And he puts a tweet, not this one, Rob.

00:07:10.440 There's another one about, you know,

00:07:12.640 him, you and Andrew Cuomo.

00:07:16.260 This was it.

00:07:17.340 In summary, in light of the inability

00:07:19.280 to add a new name to the ballot

00:07:20.860 and low probability of success to a writing campaign,

00:07:23.220 the only candidates with credible chance

00:07:24.840 to beat Mamdani or Cuomo and Adams.

00:07:27.440 I met yesterday with Adams

00:07:28.680 and with Cuomo to discuss the upcoming election

00:07:31.340 and I spent an hour or so with each of them.

00:07:34.260 In short, my takeaway is that Adams can win

00:07:36.660 the upcoming election

00:07:37.700 and that governors should step aside

00:07:39.540 to maximize Adams' probability of success.

00:07:42.660 I say this while having a high regard

00:07:44.460 to Andrew Cuomo and his contributions

00:07:45.860 to New York State,

00:07:47.100 but it was abundantly clear in his body language

00:07:49.120 he subdued energy

00:07:50.400 and his proposals to beat Mamdani

00:07:52.800 that he is not up for the fight.

00:07:55.960 When you speak to billionaires like this,

00:07:58.100 what are they telling you

00:07:59.000 and what is their concern about Mamdani?

00:08:00.700 Well, when you look at the policies

00:08:03.440 and you have to peel apart the policies

00:08:06.140 and you get a full understanding of the impact.

00:08:08.880 Let's take the Rikers Island, for example.

00:08:11.840 That is our city jail.

00:08:13.680 We have 7,400 of the most dangerous people in our city

00:08:17.320 because due to bail reform,

00:08:20.320 many of them did not have to go to jail.

00:08:23.400 They were able to come out on our streets.

00:08:25.160 He wants to open the jail and let them out.

00:08:27.760 They're going to go back to the communities 0.99

00:08:30.240 that they're preyed on.

00:08:31.600 They're going to impact low-income New Yorkers

00:08:33.980 and it's going to hurt them.

00:08:35.280 His plan to have government supermarkets.

00:08:38.520 We have many what we call bodegas.

00:08:40.320 Those are grocery stores.

00:08:41.700 We have many supermarkets.

00:08:43.420 If you put a plan in place like that,

00:08:45.780 you're going to devastate your middle-income New Yorkers, 1.00

00:08:50.060 your working-class New Yorkers.

00:08:51.600 I had a meeting with 250 supermarket owners

00:08:55.600 who stated that this is going to devastate us,

00:08:58.660 increase $30 or $40 minimum wage.

00:09:01.480 That is going to devastate the working-class community. 1.00

00:09:06.460 We have the largest number of small businesses

00:09:08.820 that are operating now under this administration.

00:09:11.420 The largest number of businesses in general,

00:09:14.300 we broke the record 11 times,

00:09:16.240 is because we know there's a marriage between a good wage 0.98

00:09:20.100 and allowing the profit margin of a business to survive.

00:09:25.240 But, okay, so when you say that,

00:09:26.980 he says, you know, seize the means of production, right?

00:09:30.520 The comments he's made about Jews,

00:09:33.720 and when you look at the population,

00:09:35.380 if I'm saying this correctly,

00:09:37.780 I believe the biggest Jewish population in America

00:09:40.100 is in New York City, right?

00:09:41.540 You guys have 960,000 Jews that live in New York City, right?

00:09:45.820 Around 12% of the population is Jews.

00:09:47.940 Used to be 2 million back in the days, in the 50s.

00:09:50.800 25% used to be Jews, but now 12%,

00:09:53.140 a lot of them have left the city.

00:09:54.780 So he calls them out.

00:09:56.240 You know, he's not very complimentary of them, okay?

00:09:59.020 He calls out billionaires.

00:10:00.140 You got the most billionaires.

00:10:01.660 He's saying he's going to do free buses for everybody.

00:10:03.740 That's going to cost $3 billion

00:10:04.760 that the billionaires are going to pay for

00:10:06.420 because they're going to raise the taxes on the billionaires.

00:10:08.060 And you've said before that mayor cannot raise taxes on billionaires.

00:10:10.760 Exactly.

00:10:11.240 That has to be done by the assembly,

00:10:12.840 which is his job that he currently does right now.

00:10:15.200 And everything he's saying,

00:10:16.560 you're hearing the stuff that he's saying,

00:10:18.000 you're saying to yourself,

00:10:19.260 none of this stuff makes sense.

00:10:20.860 How is he the leading candidate?

00:10:22.700 How does he have that?

00:10:23.580 Great question.

00:10:24.380 Because 9% of voters voted.

00:10:28.700 9%.

00:10:29.180 91% they have yet to speak.

00:10:32.780 And so the Democratic primary is really the most liberal arm,

00:10:39.780 the left arm of the voting population.

00:10:43.200 So when you have 9% of New Yorkers

00:10:46.800 who are speaking on behalf of 91% of New Yorkers,

00:10:50.420 now the job becomes people woke up and say,

00:10:53.020 whoa, whoa, what do we have here?

00:10:55.100 You know, sometimes people are lackadaisical,

00:10:58.980 apathetic, you know, not really going out and voting.

00:11:01.320 Now you're seeing an energy

00:11:03.220 that I've never witnessed before in politics.

00:11:05.740 How many people showed up to vote

00:11:06.880 the last time you had in 2009?

00:11:08.900 I think one.

00:11:09.920 How many showed up in 2021?

00:11:12.100 Less than, it was about close to a million.

00:11:15.360 Now we went a million plus.

00:11:17.380 I think it was around 900 or something thousand.

00:11:20.320 Okay, so I'm looking at this right now.

00:11:21.440 New York City mayoral race,

00:11:22.660 November 2nd of 2021, general election.

00:11:24.680 Out of 4,911,000 registered voters,

00:11:29.560 1.149 ballots were cast in.

00:11:31.840 Yes.

00:11:32.460 23.4%.

00:11:33.860 Other reports found that figured to be around 23%.

00:11:36.400 Let's just say a million, million, one showed up, right?

00:11:39.320 Okay.

00:11:40.160 And so far, only 9% have showed up to vote for Mamdani.

00:11:44.360 Yeah, a little over a million.

00:11:45.420 A little over, I think they got to a million five.

00:11:48.880 This was an increase in voter participation

00:11:51.360 because you had a lot of energy that people came out.

00:11:55.080 And where Andrew went wrong, he did not mobilize.

00:11:58.900 He didn't run a campaign.

00:12:00.600 He took a Mamdani for granted 1.00

00:12:03.160 instead of going out and running a hard campaign.

00:12:07.220 I say it all the time.

00:12:08.400 New Yorkers have five fingers.

00:12:09.820 They love to show you the middle one the most.

00:12:13.320 If you're not willing to go out and say you want the job,

00:12:16.580 he never wanted the job.

00:12:17.820 He thought this was a consolation prize.

00:12:21.080 And New Yorkers don't like that.

00:12:23.280 And so not running a hard campaign,

00:12:26.100 going head-to-head with him,

00:12:27.660 social media and all the twos,

00:12:29.820 you put yourself in a precarious position.

00:12:32.100 Rob, can you do me a favor, Rob?

00:12:33.180 Can you pull up Chad Gibet and ask the following question?

00:12:35.660 How much was voter participation

00:12:37.220 in 2025 New York City mayoral race?

00:12:40.020 Can you just type up how much was

00:12:41.380 voter participation in 2025 mayoral race?

00:12:45.580 This is the number that came up to me.

00:12:47.160 And again, I'm trying to see what's going on

00:12:48.880 because it's a little bit confusing on what's going on.

00:12:50.840 So this is the number that we see.

00:12:52.200 The primary was New York City's largest ever.

00:12:55.040 Nearly 1.15 million votes casted in 2021 general election.

00:13:01.240 First round, Mamdani, 462.

00:13:03.260 Cuomo, 384.

00:13:05.280 Brad Landon, 119.

00:13:07.300 Total ballots around a million.

00:13:08.500 Early voting surge with about 94,000 cast

00:13:12.000 in the first three days.

00:13:12.820 More than twice to 43,000 in 2021.

00:13:15.440 So this is 2x, more than 2x.

00:13:17.760 Overall, turnout was under 30% of registered Democrats,

00:13:21.000 consistent with the past New York primary.

00:13:22.660 So that's the numbers we're looking at right now.

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Valuetainment - July 11, 2025

＂Mamdani Is A Symbol Of Radicalization＂- Eric Adams BLASTS Mamdani's Rising Star In NYC Mayoral Race

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