NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 34, is spending his political capital to reshape Democratic politics around working-class affordability—endorsing progressive congressional candidates, freezing rents for nearly a million apartments, and launching universal child care while facing right-wing attacks and navigating tensions within his own party over Gaza policy. Mamdani defines the working class as anyone unable to afford basic dignities despite working, not by income threshold, and argues there is only one majority in America—the working class.