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HAYS: “I think that he is trying to fulfill his campaign promises, and I think he is trying to show people that he‘s not all talk and that he is going to show some action. And if you saw him today, he was out at an apartment building, doing an apartment building, doing a lot of things for housing. So I do think that, where some of his policies are very controversial, especially to folks in New York, like what you‘re talking about with some of the Jewish sentiment, he is trying to show that he is serious about affordability and serious about making decisions that will make New York more affordable for the people of New York.”