The core of her complaint is one that she keeps returning to: that her fellow Republicans aren’t doing enough to fix the affordability crisis. “Mike Johnson has not had a single conference meeting about any sort of plan to deal with the ACA tax credits expiring,” she said. “What am I saying that can be criticized? I’m saying the cost of living is too high, health insurance premiums are destroying the middle class, and Republicans have no plan.”
A lot of coverage of Mamdani’s rise understandably focuses on his style. He’s a charismatic and compelling politician with an invaluable gift in 2025: He can speak contemporaneously and comfortably in seemingly any format, whether it be podcasts about sports, stupid Instagram bits, or longform interviews. But the substance of Mamdani’s candidacy often gets short shrift. He is running a phenomenally disciplined campaign built around the skyrocketing cost of living. He can turn almost anything—the rising cost of halal food trucks or the World Cup—into a story about affordability. It is why he likely will be elected mayor in next month’s general election.
Here they can take a lesson from Greene—a sentence I never thought I’d write. But the shutdown is about affordability. Democrats are refusing to reopen the government unless Republicans agree to reinstate Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. If they expire, the cost of health will triple instantly for some families, rendering it unaffordable.
Democrats have made those subsidies the centerpiece of their message, but it could be extended further to a larger cost-of-living crisis that people are very angry about. Obamacare isn’t the only thing that’s getting more expensive due to Republican policies. Trump’s tariffs have caused costs to rise everywhere—not just on food but household items and many consumer goods. Republicans have backed the president’s illogical (and potentially illegal) trade war at every turn, even though it is causing costs to rapidly rise.
Mamdani’s message discipline served him well in Thursday’s mayoral debate, when again and again he turned serious and silly questions back to his core theme. When Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa hijacked an already comic segment devoted to parades to press Mamdani on whether he would support taking down statues of Christopher Columbus, Mamdani smiled. “My focus is on affordability,” he said. When former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent after losing in the Democratic primary, offered a stunted explanation for that loss—he basically said he didn’t tweet enough—Mamdani jumped in. “It’s been an hour and 20 minutes of this debate and we have yet to hear Andrew Cuomo say the word ‘affordability,’” he said. “That’s why he lost the race.”
Affordability is a strong issue for Democrats—voters trust them on it. Mamdani knows this. And so does Marjorie Taylor Greene. Does Chuck Schumer?
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