A Mamdani Strategist’s Recommendation for Democrats within the 2026 Midterms

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The Washington Roundtable examines the potential for a “blue wave” within the 2026 midterms. The hosts are joined by Morris Katz, a twenty-six-year-old Democratic political strategist for Zohran Mamdani, and Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine. Katz argues that for the Social gathering to win a historic majority within the subsequent election, it must embrace outsider candidates who refuse cash from company PACs and aren’t “apologetic” concerning the authorities’s function in folks’s lives. “We are able to run a marketing campaign that claims, ‘Donald Trump mentioned he’d finish without end warfare and decrease prices and he hasn’t’—that might be profitable,” Katz says. “I believe much more profitable could be that we are going to finish without end wars, and we’re going to decrease prices by taking over monopolies—by taking over worth gouging, by elevating wages, by taxing billionaires extra.”

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