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Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., says he disagrees with Zohran Mamdani when it comes to his positions, but said his fellow Democrats could learn something from the democratic socialist — something that reminds him of President Donald Trump.
“You have to recognize that he tapped into something,” Suozzi said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “He tapped into the same thing that Donald Trump tapped into, which is that people are concerned that the economy is not working for them.”
The “democratic capitalist,” as he describes himself, said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week that Mamdani’s win in the democratic mayoral primary should be a “loud wake-up call for Democrats.”
“Too often, Democrats are not perceived as being focused on affordability and the economy and the middle class and people aspiring to the middle class and their economic concerns,” Suozzi told Weijia Jiang,