New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, struggled to define who the “working class” is in a word salad response to a question about the people he vows to fight for.

Mamdani, in a lengthy interview with the New York Times published over the weekend, was asked point-blank by journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “How do you define the working class?”

“I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class,” he vaguely responded.

When pushed whether he would consider those who make $250,000 per year as working class, he said, “I haven’t asked myself where it starts and stops.

“What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren’t able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we’re asked how we divide this country. I think there’s only one majority in this country — it’s the working class,” he then rambled.

Confused by the convoluted reponse, Garcia-Navarro admitted that Hizzoner’s description didn’t seem to “ring true,” to her.

“It just seems a very easy answer to what is a complicated question,” the reporter fought back. “Because politically, if you’re saying everyone is the working class, or anyone that gets a salary is the working class, yes, that opens up your tent. But practically speaking, we are divided by income — and especially if you want to tax people, where you draw those lines matter.”

Mamdani then said he would draw the line at around $1 million per year — which Garcia-Navarro pointed out could alienate potential voters such as a janitor who he’s lumped in the same “working class” category as a successful lawyer.

“That feels like a distinction that might matter,” she told the mayor.

“When I was running, a question I would face was: What does it mean to be a democratic socialist? And I only bring that up because I think sometimes there’s a fixation on a definition of something,” Mamdani attempted to explain.

“And what I found is, when I would knock on New Yorkers’ doors, they would just ask: Am I part of your vision? It’s not that everyone is making the same amount of money or facing the same amount of struggle, but that they just want to know, is there any way for them to actually be able to work this hard and afford a good life in the city?” he added.

Garcia-Navarro then accused him of deflecting from the question by talking about New Yorkers’ wants in “broad strokes.”

“Look, I think I’ve defined it to you as someone who works to afford their life,” he shot back. “I also think, no matter how you define it, we have an understanding that those who are struggling to afford the rent, struggling to afford their groceries, struggling to afford child care, are the people who should be at the heart of our vision for what comes next.”