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World Service,4 mins

'Americans are fed up with cruelty'

Newshour

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Brad Lander, newly elected Congressman for New York, a member of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, tells Newshour's Jamie Coomarsamy why an "America that believes in the better angels of people's nature" was responsible for the Democrat's victory in the US midterms. (Photo: Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for New York's 10th Congressional District, shows his ballot as he votes in Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

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