Mamdani Just Became Mayor. This NYC Lawmaker Is Ready to Fight.

Vickie Paladino is the second highest ranking Republican on the New York City Council. She's a Trump supporter who has lived her whole life in the Northeast Queens district she now represents. Critics call her hateful, a bigot, an Islamophobe, and over the last year, she's become perhaps the most controversial GOP lawmaker in the state. But she's also a throwback to a New York that is fast disappearing, a last of the Mohicans figure from the Rudy Giuliani era, and a dealmaker who enjoys the friendship and respect of her Democratic colleagues.