“I hope very soon not to have to ask you for money. But until then, I’m askin’ for you to go to transition2025.com, give whatever you can \u2026” Mamdani said in a video<\/a> posted Tuesday.<\/p>\n The incoming mayor explained that transition operations do not qualify for public matching funds, unlike campaign contributions.<\/p>\n “Now unlike the campaign, transitions do not get public matching funds from the city. So that eight-to-one match: gone. It’s up to us to raise the money. Usually campaigns take that as an opportunity to rely on wealthy donors, but that’s not us,” he said.<\/p>\n NYC MAYOR-ELECT MAMDANI DOUBLES DOWN ON NETANYAHU ARREST PLEDGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani holds a press conference at the Unisphere in the Queens borough of New York City, Nov. 5, 2025 (Stephani Spindel\/VIEWpress)<\/p>\n Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, said “we need to raise $4 million dollars in total, so January 1st can be the day we start to deliver, not start to prepare.”<\/p>\n Figures displayed in the video showed more than $1 million raised as of Nov. 14, with an average donation of $77.65 across 12,707 donors.<\/p>\n INSIDE THE MAMDANI MACHINE: SOROS CASH, SOCIALISTS AND RADICAL IMAMS ENGINEERED ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S PATH TO POWER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani pays for an egg and cheese with jalape\u00f1os sandwich before he speaks at a press conference on Oct. 29, 2025 in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx borough in New York City.\u00a0 (\u00a0Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n In the video, he explained why he’s fundraising<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We have to vet the 50,000 resumes we’ve received,” he said. “We have to keep paying our incredible team.”<\/p>\n “And we have to plan not just our inauguration, but our policy implementation,” he said.<\/p>\n NYC MAYOR-ELECT ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S FATHER SAYS HE WILL KEEP \u2018ARM\u2019S LENGTH’ FROM SON’S UPCOMING ADMINISTRATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks at his election night party in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 4, 2025 (Barry Williams\/New York Daily News\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/zohran-mamdani-nyc-november-2025.jpg\")
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