I think you're onto something because this seems like bad training. Mamdani's claim is that he's really good on the everyday issues that affect the people of NY. The problem is he's probably focused so much on that and nothing else. The journalists have picked up on it over his Israel/Palestine comments and the reaction. Now they can just lob this stuff at him and he can't do anything. He might be someone who can be Rogan'd into the correct opinion if he spent time with his constituents and more knowledgeable people. Too late now though.

Maybe they should have flipped it around from the start. Go so hard and aggressive into foreign issues these journalists are saying you don't care about NYC. Then spend the last month correcting them by doing nothing but talking about the city. Recency bias wins and forced the media to go where you wanted.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is also the first episode of this podcast. I have no idea if these two have massive popularity that brings them a built in audience, that's probably the case. That said, I don't think I would be the launching episode of a new podcast if I was campaigning, that's for sure.

The conspiracy worms in my brain could say something like: The Democrats likely paid this guy to push their opening episode in favor of this one specifically to grill Mamdani on this topic. They didn't inform him that this was going to be asked specifically to scold and correct him.

But that's not the the likely scenario.

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, he's probably doing this out of love of the game (anticommunism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ramos_(news_anchor)