00:00New York City's Socialist Mayor Zora Mamdani is putting to rest any speculation about a future
00:04White House bid. In an interview Sunday, the mayor laughed off the idea of changing the
00:09Constitution so he could one day run for president. ABC News' Jonathan Karl pointed out that Mamdani
00:14is about to turn 35 years old, one of the requirements to run for president. The other,
00:18according to the Constitution, is that candidates be natural-born citizens, meaning born in the
00:22United States. Do you think that's something that should be changed in the Constitution?
00:27It would take an amendment, but do you think that we should change that?
00:31No. I think the Constitution looks good the way it is.
00:34Just the way it is.
00:35Just the way it is. I'm very excited to focus on New York City,
00:38but thank you for reminding me of my upcoming mortality.
00:4235 years old.
00:42Mamdani was born in Uganda, came to the U.S. as a young boy, and became an American citizen in
00:462018.
00:47But while he dismissed all that talk of a presidential run, he embraced his growing
00:51influence inside of the Democratic Party. He represents this wave of democratic socialism
00:56gaining traction on the left. Mamdani recently scored a series of political wins after three
01:01candidates he endorsed won their Democratic primaries. He said those victories show that
01:05Americans are hungry for, quote, a new kind of politics that puts working people first.
01:09Mamdani also defended one of those candidates when pressed about her past calls to abolish prisons
01:14and borders. While declining to say he supports eliminating prisons himself, he said simply,
01:19there are prisons. Safety is not something that's up for debate.
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