With fewer than 100 days before voting begins in the New York City primary, NY1 is sitting down with candidates running for mayor.

On Friday, Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani joined “Mornings On 1” to make his case to voters.

“I've been telling New Yorkers… to dream,” Mamdani said. “Don't rank Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo for mayor because they deserve more than these disgraced executives of the past and the present. They deserve a future.”

Mamdani’s campaign has primarily been fueled by small-dollar donors, but he has already reached the maximum funding limit for the June primary.

“We've actually had to tell New Yorkers to stop sending us money because we've hit the maximum amount we can spend — $8 million,” he said. “And we've done it from more than 17,000 supporters whose average donation is around $84.”

Asked how he has built that level of support, Mamdani pointed to direct voter engagement.

“I’ve been speaking to New Yorkers at their homes, on subway platforms and through social media,” he said. “People want our vision for a more affordable New York City because they're living the lack of it right now.”

Mamdani said social media has helped him reach New Yorkers.

“It's a playbook that has politics that's direct to people's lives. It's not one that requires translation. And when we talk about our platform — freezing the rent for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants, making the slowest buses in the country fast and free, delivering universal child care — people see themselves in that because those are the things that they do,” he said.

He hopes to pay for his proposals in partnership with the state by raising corporate taxes.

“A bulk of this revenue can come from increasing our corporate tax rate from 7.25% to match the 10 other states in the region that have higher tax rates,” Mamdani said. “What we're talking about is taking a page out of New Jersey's book, which has an 11.5% corporate tax rate for many years. That's the amount of percentage points that would actually pay for so much of this agenda.”

Mamdani dismissed concern that higher taxes could push businesses out of New York.

“Our corporate tax law applies to any business that does business here, not just those headquartered here,” he said. “And if we were a country, our state would have the 10th largest GDP in the world. And I don't believe any business is going to stop engaging with this city or the state, just because of how much demand there is here.”

At 33, Mamdani is among the youngest candidates in the race, but he doesn’t see that as a deterrent. He pointed to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, 40, who became mayor at 36.

“I am just two years younger than she was when she started her campaign to be the mayor of that city. And what Andrew Cuomo represents is he would be the oldest mayor in the history of the city of New York,” he said. “I would be a new generation. And I think what we see in our politics is a desire to turn the page on the failed leadership that delivered us these crises.”