Full Transcript for Mamdani Caucus Has MASK OFF Moment, and It Might've SCREWED Democrats

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Moving on Daria Eliza Chevalier, who is one of the members of the Mam Donnie Caucus, has been making the rounds here because well, she won the big primary on Tuesday in New York and she's sort of the leading face behind Zora Mamdani of this Mandannie caucus. And she went on Ali Velshi's program in the MS NOW basically asking Velshi asking, how do you respond to this idea that you're a communist. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: Allegation and you're going to appear in all sorts of people's ads, all such of Republicans ads to say this is what you're going to get if you vote for the Democrats, a communist you know. 00:00:43 Speaker 3: I think that is that framing is one that I've been very proud to be able to say I don't respond to, one in which I have been very intentional to say, I won't be reactive. We are presenting a vision of what we're fighting for, and I think for far too long we have had politics that is reactive to what Republicans are doing. What we need is Democrats who are actually going to present a positive vision, one that sets the tone for what we should be talking about, which is the issue of affordability, which is the issue of how our budgets are moral documents. If we say that we want to invest in working people in this country, then we need to do that, and our budgets need to reflect that. If we say that we value immigration and immigration justice, we need to make sure that that is also reflective in our policy. And so I'm very proud of a campaign that we built that centers those ideals, that centers those values and that vision for what we need as a community. And that's how I'll continue to move forward in Congress. And I think that for far too long, this reactive conversation of what we should be afraid of has prevented us from being able to have a politics of hope and the politics of life that Democrats can actually identify with when the majority of the Democrats base has been seeking for the Democratic Party to act. 00:02:03 Speaker 1: Delegate ali Velshi asks how do you respond to allegations that you're a communists? And Daria Eliza says, no, what Kevin am I taking crazy pills? 00:02:18 Speaker 4: Kevin? Is that is did you did you hear the same answer that I did. 00:02:23 Speaker 5: The greatest thing about what she says is she goes, we need to Perford a positive vision that sets the tone. And we need to understand that our budgets are moral documents that reflect the moral fabric of the municipality. That's crazy considering the what billions or trillions of dollars I get fleshed down the toilet in New York City. 00:02:47 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:02:48 Speaker 1: So Darieliza says budgets are moral documents, and. 00:02:55 Speaker 6: I actually agree with but world documents than New York City is the seventh layer of hell. 00:03:09 Speaker 1: But I can't I can't disagree with that point. It is almost too funny how New York City has run. 00:03:19 Speaker 4: Their their municipal government. 00:03:21 Speaker 1: I don't understand how Look, probably the thing that ticks me off the most about New York City is how they basically got a bail out from the state and then said, look, Zaramandani basically wiped out our debt. 00:03:37 Speaker 5: Yeah, and they all hate Kathy Hokel despite it. 00:03:41 Speaker 4: God, it's just it's so tiring. 00:03:43 Speaker 1: But it gets even better because Ali Velshi he comes in with the even harder hitting question. Uh, specifically about Daria Eliza's criticisms of the Democrat Party. 00:03:56 Speaker 2: But the Joe Biden one, you did say you called him a rape. 00:04:01 Speaker 4: Is that the kind of thing that. 00:04:02 Speaker 2: Just because you're sort of a digital native and that you do on the internet, or did you believe that and. 00:04:07 Speaker 3: Do you believe that you know I have. I think there was a lot of misunderstandings around what where my posts, why they were deleted. I deleted my account many years back because I was focused on returning to organizing and my studies. I was working on a PhD program, and I think often we are asked to we're asked to really have accountability for folks who have not held political office or have political power, and don't do the same for folks who are in positions of political power. Now, all that to say, I do regret my tweets, and there's something that I think has brought a lot of division, and that's something I regret because as an organizer, my goal is always to unify our community and deliver for our community. 00:04:52 Speaker 4: And I think. 00:04:53 Speaker 3: There's this question of why is it that when folks who do not have power political power in this instance, are being held accountable for things, we don't also hold accountable folks who do have political power, where the decisions they are making in office every single day have an enormous impact on millions of people in our country, right, and I think for folks who feel disempowered, it's important to make sure that we're getting to the heart of where that sense of disempowerment. 00:05:21 Speaker 2: Deciding you actually said that with respect your tweet about Kamala harr you said that it came from a place of you feeling disempowered. 00:05:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think so much. So many folks in our country feel that they don't have representation that. 00:05:36 Speaker 4: Is fighting for She is disempowered. 00:05:41 Speaker 5: Imagine today, did she say that she took a break from calling Joe Biden a rapist on Twitter to start community organizing and get a PhD. 00:05:52 Speaker 1: So she's gonna we'll get into the PhD thing in just a second. But she says she regrets her tweets. What part did you grit calling Joe Biden a rapist or saying f Kamala Harris? And she says this because she was disempowered. Think about what she is when she's empowered. I mean the she's focused on this campaign of hope. Who she thinks she is Barack Obama in two thousand and eight, This is she wants, she wants to be the Hope and