NYC mayoral debate kicks off with candidates giving their one-year headline if elected

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00:00By asking you to do what every mayor dreams of, and that is to write your own headlines.

00:06Imagine it's January 2027, and you have been in office for exactly one year.

00:11We would like you to quickly give us one headline about what you think your biggest

00:16accomplishment will have been in year number one. We'll begin with you, Mr. Cuomo.

00:21First, thank you very much for sponsoring the debate and having all of us.

00:25The one headline, how many characters in the headline?

00:29You know, you're familiar with headline length.

00:32Rent down, comma. Crime down, comma. Education scores up, comma. More jobs in New York City, comma.

00:42Now we're getting maybe a little over the average headline length, but...

00:46Optimism high.

00:47Thank you. Mr. Sliwa.

00:50Curtis Sliwa is without his iconic red beret because I'm talking to the people of New York City

00:57about the really serious issues of affordability, the cost of living, and obviously what I spent

01:04most of my life doing, which is public safety in the streets and the subways.

01:08We would love a headline from you. What will your headline be, your big headline, and your

01:12number one as mayor?

01:14Curtis Sliwa exceeds all expectations and looks very mayoral tonight.

01:21Mr. Mondani, you've had some time to think about it now. What's your headline?

01:23It's a pleasure to be here, first of all, and I really want to thank the moderators and

01:27the opportunity to speak directly to New Yorkers about this moment in time and our opportunity

01:31to transform the most expensive city in the United States of America. The headline would

01:35read in about a year, Mondani continues to take on Trump, delivers on affordability agenda

01:40for New Yorkers.

01:41Thank you, Mr. Mondani.