
Everybody Wants to Be Zohran Mamdani
Short-form video helped transform an unknown candidate into the mayor of New York. Now politicians across the country are copying him, and most of them are terrible at it.
Former candidate for Congress in Ohio's 7th District, Matt Diemer
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