00:00Good evening, New York City!
00:10How are we all doing?
00:16Habibi, how are you?
00:22It is so good to see you all here tonight.
00:30Now, as you know, a politician is only as good as the team around them.
00:39So I have to ask that team to start up this teleprompter.
00:45Because right now, it's off the top of the dome.
00:55And while we wait, why don't we actually begin?
00:59New York is not for sale!
01:10Thirteen days after we announced our candidacy, Donald Trump won the presidency once again.
01:16The Bronx and Queens saw some of the largest shifts to the right of any counties in our country.
01:26No matter what article you read or channeled you turned to, the story seemed to be the same.
01:36Our city was headed to the right.
01:38Obituaries were written about Democrats' abilities to reach Asian voters, young voters, male voters.
01:51Again and again, we were told that if we had any hope of beating the Republican Party,
01:56it would only be by becoming the Republican Party.
01:59Andrew Cuomo himself said that we had lost not because we had failed to speak to the needs of working-class Americans,
02:11but because we had spent too much time talking about bathrooms and sports teams.
02:15This was a moment where it seemed our political horizon was narrowing.
02:24And in this moment, New York, you had a choice.
02:29A choice to retreat or to fight.
02:37And the choice that we made was to stop listening to those experts and to start listening to you.
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