Ky. Gov. Beshear Dodges on if Mamdani Is a Leader in the Democratic Party

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BOLDUAN: “Zohran Mamdani is a Democratic socialist. That is not your brand of politics in the Democratic Party, but it has people saying that he is or should be the direction that the party is going. Do you think -- what do you think of his win? And do you think that he is a leader in the Democratic Party?”
BESHEAR: “I think what we're seeing is it's less about what people call themselves and more about what they're focused on. The winner there in the New York mayor's race was unquestionably more focused on people's struggles, on the inability to afford housing, on the inability to pay the bills at the end of the week and at the end of the month. And I think people are less focused right now on on even the policy proposals. But what they want is someone committed to trying to to address it. And I think you see that across all the races. And that should be a wake up call, not just to to Democrats, but but to everybody. You know, people are concerned the American dream is slipping away and that's a huge threat to the country. And we have to believe that if we work hard and we play by the rules, we can get ahead.”