“I don’t think we should have billionaires,” says Zohran Mamdani.

Zahran Mamdani, the supposed democratic candidate for the mayor in New York City, said on Sunday that he does not believe that billionaires should be present.

He was asked directly if the billionaires should have the right to exist, Mamdani, who determines himself as a democratic socialist, said to “NBC News” “Meet the Press”, “I do not think that we must have billionaires because, frankly, it is a lot of money in the moment of inequality, and in the end, what we need more than any equality across our city and through our situation through us.”

He added: “I look forward to working with everyone, including billionaires, to form a fair city for all of them.”

His remarks come when some wealthy people in New York City stood on Mamdani in the days that followed that he will be the supposed candidate.

Bill Akman, director of the billionaire hedge fund that supports President Donald Trump in the past, pledged on Thursday to use his money to finance a competitor to Mamdani in the general elections.

“[Mamdani’s] The policies will be disastrous for New York City. Socialism has no place in the economic capital of our country. The ability of New York City depends on providing services to the poor and needy, not to mention the normal New Yorker, just that New York City is a business friendly environment and a place where the wealthy residents are ready to spend 183 days and take over the associated tax burden, “Ackman books In a post on X.

“More importantly, there are hundreds of million dollars in the available capital to support a competitor to Mamdani that can be collected overnight (believe me, I am in the text chains and WhatsApp groups) so that a large alternative candidate does not spend money. So, if the appropriate candidate raises his hand or hand tomorrow, then the fun will withdraw.”

On Sunday, Mamdani also talked about his plans to raise taxes on the richest people who live in Apple Great, and tell “Meet the Press”, the director of Christine Wilker, “in the end, the reason for increasing these taxes by the highest 1 %, the most profitable companies, is to increase the quality of life for everyone, including those who will get taxes.”

His plan to raise taxes on the wealthy as one of the main principles of his platform that helped him win electoral blackmail.

“We see that our vision to impose taxes on the highest 1 % of the New York population – these are the population of New York who receive a million dollars annually or more – and our suggestion is an additional 2 % tax on them, is something that has wide support, and we will continue to increase this support in the next few months.”

Mamdani also faced critics – Including President Donald Trump Those who call it Communist.

In response to a question about Trump’s comments, Mamdani said in response to a question about Trump’s comments.

On Sunday, in a separate interview on the Fox News that was recorded on Friday, Trump spoke again about Mamdani, which caused a threat to withdraw federal financing from New York City if the next mayor “does the right thing”.

“But we say this: if he enters, I will be president, and he will have to do the right thing or that they do not get any money, he must do the right thing.”

“I had to start getting used to that, and getting used to the fact that the president would talk about how I look, and how I look, where I am, who I am, in the end, because he wants to distract his attention from what I fight for, and I am fighting for the workers who have been running a campaign to enable him since then.”

Among the main focus of Mamdani’s campaign was to talk about the ability to bear the costs and the economy, a point he made in “meeting the press” on Sunday when he was asked why he believed that he had won.

“The focus on the fact that we live in the most expensive city in the United States of America. It is also the richest city in the richest country in the world’s history, however, Mamdani lives in every 4 New York population in poverty, and the rest are apparently trapped in anxiety.”

He added: “What we saw is that this is a city that needs to be within the reach of the people who build it every day. Our focus was exactly on that, and by maintaining this focus on an economic agenda, we showed to the New York residents that this might be more than just a museum of what it was once. It could be a covenant to influence the possibility.”