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00:00It is my honor to introduce the next mayor of the city of New York, Zoran Mandati.
00:30It is my southern slang, I swing it every day, I'm trying to get it poppin', each and every way, it's for a nation, on the goons, my goals are strippin' on these cats down in the hunting rooms.
01:14Thank you so much.
01:26Good evening, New York City!
01:30How are we all doing?
01:43Habibi, how are you?
01:49It is so good to see you all here tonight.
01:52Now, as you know, a politician is only as good as the team around them.
02:04So I have to ask that team to start off this teleprompter.
02:12Because right now, it's off the top of the dome.
02:15And while we wait, why don't we actually begin?
02:26Can we first hear a round of applause for our incredible emcee, Sarah Sherman?
02:32Can we hear it for the elected officials, the labor leaders, and the New Yorkers who have joined us this evening?
02:46And can we hear it for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
02:59Yeah, we're good.
03:07You know...
03:12There are many things one can say about our Congresswoman, but I want to tell you a story about 2021.
03:25When we went on a 15-day hunger strike and won $450 million in debt relief for working-class taxi drivers.
03:37The Congresswoman was there with us on that picket line.
03:44She was there with us on the phone after everyone else had gone home.
03:52And she was there with us again in the primary of this election.
03:58And that's because she's there for working people.
04:03And now we are just getting started.
04:08And let's please make some noise for Senator Bernie Sanders.
04:14I stand before you tonight only because the Senator dared to stand alone for so long.
04:32I speak the language of democratic socialism only because he spoke it first.
04:42And when I ran for state assembly almost six years ago to the day, it was at Bernie's rally in Queensbridge Park where I led our first canvas.
04:53Signing people up for our email lists, asking them for $5 or $10 and encouraging them to believe that the politics of not-me-us applied to our state government just as much as our national one.
05:09When we win on November 4th, and then govern from City Hall with dignity as the foundation of our politics, it will be because of the movement that Bernie built.
05:34I stand before you tonight as the nominee of a democratic party reinvigorated in its pursuit of making government work for everyone, not just the wealthy and the well-connected.
05:52Looking out at more than 13,000 of you here in Forest Hills Stadium, it is tempting to believe that this moment was always destined.
06:12Yet when we launched this campaign on October 23rd, one year and three days ago, there was not a single television camera there to cover it.
06:23When we launched this campaign one year and three days ago, my name was a statistical anomaly in every poll.
06:35Four months later, as recently as this February, our support had reached the eye-watering heights of 1%.
06:45We were tied with noted candidate someone else.
06:53I always knew we could beat him.
06:56When we launched this campaign one year and three days ago, the political world did not pay it much attention.
07:03Because we were looking to build a movement that reflected the city as it actually is, not just the one that political consultants think exists on a spreadsheet.
07:15And when we launched this campaign one year and three days ago, we were dismissed as a punchline in the halls of power.
07:25The idea of fundamentally changing who government serves in this city was unimaginable.
07:33Even if we gained momentum, they asked, how would we ever overcome the tens of millions of dollars in a tax that would follow?
07:41Yet we knew then what we know now. New York is not for sale.
07:47As young people showed up in record numbers.
07:59As immigrants saw themselves in the politics of their city.
08:03As seniors, once skeptical, dared to dream again.
08:08We spoke with one voice. New York is not for sale.
08:15And now, as we stand on the precipice of taking this city back.
08:21From corrupt politicians and the billionaires that fund them.
08:25Let our words ring out so loud tonight that Andrew Cuomo can hear them in his $8,000 a month apartment.
08:33Let them ring so loud so that he can hear us even if he's in Westchester this evening.
08:49Let them ring so loud that his puppet master in the White House hears us.
08:55New York is not for sale.
09:0513 days after we announced our candidacy, Donald Trump won the presidency once again.
09:17The Bronx and Queens saw some of the largest shifts to the right of any counties in our country.
09:29No matter what article you read or channel you turned to, the story seemed to be the same.
09:35Our city was headed to the right.
09:45Obituaries were written about Democrats abilities to reach Asian voters, young voters, male voters.
09:51Again and again, we were told that if we had any hope of beating the Republican Party, it would only be by the Republican Party.
10:05Andrew Cuomo himself said that we had lost not because we had failed to speak to the needs of working class Americans,
10:12but because we had spent too much time talking about bathrooms and sports teams.
10:21This was a moment where it seemed our political horizon was narrowing.
10:26And in this moment, New York, you had a choice.
10:30A choice to retreat or to fight.
10:39And the choice that we made was to stop listening to those experts and to start listening to you.
10:51We went to two of the places that saw the biggest swings to the right, Fordham Road and Hillside Avenue.
10:58These New Yorkers were far from the caricature of Trump voters.
11:04They told us they supported Donald Trump because they felt disconnected from a Democratic Party
11:10that had grown comfortable with mediocrity and gave its time only to those who gave millions.
11:15They told us that they felt abandoned by a party beholden to corporations,
11:22which asked them for their votes after telling them only what it was against rather than presenting a vision of what it was for.
11:29They told us they didn't believe in a system anymore that did not even pretend to offer solutions to the defining challenge of their lives,
11:42the cost of living crisis.
11:44Rent was too expensive.
11:46Rent was too expensive.
11:47So were groceries.
11:48So was childcare.
11:49So was taking the bus and working two or three jobs still wasn't enough.
11:53Trump, for all his many flaws, had promised them an agenda that would put more money in their pockets and lower the cost of living.
12:02Donald Trump lied.
12:09It was up to us to deliver for the working people he left behind.
12:13Over the eight months of the primary, we told New Yorkers how we intended to address that very same affordability crisis.
12:25We did not do it alone.
12:28This was a movement powered by tens of thousands of everyday New Yorkers.
12:37Who knocked doors between 12 hour shifts at work and phone banked until their fingers were numb.
12:44People who had never voted before became die hard canvassers.
12:52Community formed.
12:54Our city got to know each other and itself.
12:57This, my friends, was your movement.
13:04And it always will be.
13:11As the snow melted and the frost thawed, this campaign began to grow faster than anyone ever imagined possible.
13:20So many small donors chipped in that we had to ask you to stop donating.
13:28Please stop.
13:32We climbed the poles faster than Andrew Cuomo could dial Donald Trump's number.
13:41People started to learn how to pronounce my name.
13:48And the billionaires got scared.
14:07Or as the New York Times would describe it, the Hamptons was basically in group therapy about the mayoral race.
14:19Andrew Cuomo and his corporate cronies did everything they could to make this campaign one of fear and one of smallness.
14:30Hell yeah.
14:40Obviously.
14:42They pumped millions into this race.
14:45Artificially lengthened my beard to make me seem menacing.
14:49Painted our city as a dystopian hell hole and worked night and day to divide the people of New York.
15:04They failed.
15:10When I walked the length of Manhattan just a few days before the election, hundreds of New Yorkers marched alongside me.
15:21And when we strode into Times Square under a billboard with betting odds that showed Cuomo's chances of winning at nearly 80%, we knew that the so-called experts were set to get it wrong yet again.
15:37Andrew Cuomo was supposed to be inevitable.
15:42And then on June 24th, we shattered that inevitability.
15:52We won by 13%, with the most votes in any citywide primary in New York City history.
16:09Some of those New Yorkers had voted for Trump.
16:12Many others had never voted before.
16:15And when Andrew Cuomo called me to concede at 10.15 that night, he said over the phone that we had created a tremendous force.
16:32When you insist on building a coalition with room for every New Yorker, that is exactly what you create, a tremendous force.
16:40That force has only grown over these past four months.
16:50We now have more than 90,000 volunteers.
16:57And we have spoken to millions more New Yorkers.
17:01We have put forth new plans in these last few months for how we will govern.
17:06Hiring thousands more teachers for our schools.
17:13Taking on the consultants and the contracts and city government.
17:20And tackling the final boss of New York City infrastructure.
17:24Scaffolding.
17:25But over the past few weeks, as this race has entered its final days, we have witnessed displays of Islamophobia that shocked the conscience.
17:38Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, and Curtis Sliwa do not have an agenda for the future.
17:52All they possess is the playbook of the past.
17:55They have sought to make this election a referendum, not on the affordability crisis that consumes New Yorker's lives, but on the faith I belong to and the hatred they seek to normalize.
18:08We spent months working to convince the world that New Yorkers have a right to afford this city that we all love.
18:19Now, we are being forced to defend the idea that a Muslim is even allowed to lead it.
18:25These same big money donors and disgraced politicians have sought to rob us of our ambition because they do not think that you deserve the beauty of a dignified life.
18:39And time and again, they have encouraged you to imagine less because they know that a reimagined New York hurts their bottom line.
18:54I believe that this city is like the universe, constantly expanding.
18:59We deserve a city government as ambitious as the working New Yorkers who make it the greatest city in the world.
19:12We cannot wait for someone else to deliver it.
19:16We are not afforded the luxury of waiting because too often to wait is to trust those who delivered us to this point.
19:24On November 4th, we will set the course of our city back in the direction it belongs.
19:37And in doing so, we will answer a question that our nation has wrestled with from the dawn of our founding.
19:45Who is allowed to be free?
19:47There are some who hear that question and they know the answer without hesitation.
19:55They are the oligarchs who have accumulated.
19:58Valves off those who labor from before the light breaks the horizon until long after color has drained from the sky.
20:07These are the robber barons of America.
20:09And they believe their money affords them a larger say than the rest of us.
20:20I am not just talking about the Bill Ackmans and Ken Langones of the world.
20:25I speak of people whose names you are not familiar with who have no qualms about contributing more to super PACs than we would ever tax them.
20:36And who celebrate when those PACs flood our airwaves with commercials that plaster the words global jihad over my face.
20:51Their freedom doesn't just come at the expense of dignity and truth.
20:56It comes at the expense of the freedoms of others too.
20:59They are the authoritarians who seek to keep us pressed beneath their thumbs.
21:05Because they know that once we shake ourselves loose, we will never be held down again.
21:10Each and every one of these people think New York is for sale.
21:18For too long, my friends, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.
21:40The oligarchs of New York are the wealthiest people in the wealthiest city, in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.
21:50They do not want the equation to change.
21:54They will do everything they can to prevent their grip from weakening.
21:58The truth is as simple as it is non-negotiable.
22:04We are all allowed freedom.
22:07Each one of us, the working people of this city, the taxi drivers, the line cooks, the nurses.
22:19All those seeking lives of grace, not greed, we all get to be free.
22:33And on November 4th, thanks to the hard work of more than 90,000 volunteers across every corner of this city.
22:40That is exactly what we will tell the world.
22:48Because while Donald Trump's billionaire donors think that they have the money to buy this election,
22:55we have a movement of the masses.
23:01And we are a movement that is not afraid of what we believe.
23:06And we have believed it for quite some time.
23:12Those who worry about what this movement may look like on January 1st,
23:18are the ones who worried on October 23rd what it may look like tonight.
23:23But our purpose has not changed, and neither have our promises.
23:28As I said on the evening I announced, the job of government is to actually make our lives better.
23:37And in the exact words I said on October 23rd,
23:44here is what we stand for, my friends.
23:47We are going to freeze the rent for more than 2 million rent stabilized tenants.
23:56And use every resource at our disposal to build housing for everyone who needs it.
24:02We are going to eliminate the fare on every single bus line.
24:13And make what are currently the slowest buses in the nation move around this city with ease.
24:18And we are going to create universal childcare at no cost to parents.
24:27So New Yorkers can raise their family in the city they love.
24:35Together New York, we're going to freeze the...
24:42Together New York, we're going to make buses fast and...
24:45Free!
24:47Together New York, we're going to deliver universal childcare!
24:52We will make our city one where every person who calls it home can live a dignified life.
25:04No New Yorker should ever be priced out of anything they need to survive.
25:09And we believe then, we believe today, we will believe tomorrow that it is government's job to deliver that dignity.
25:22Dignity, my friends, is another way of saying freedom.
25:29Freedom.
25:32Standing before you this evening, I take great strength from those who have labored mightily for the cause of freedom in America.
25:41Who refuse to accept that government could not meet what moments of crisis demanded from it.
25:47When the power of the people overwhelms the influence of the powerful, there is no crisis that government cannot meet.
25:56It was government that enacted a new deal to lift a generation out of poverty.
26:02To create beautiful public goods.
26:09And establish the right to unionize and collectively bargain.
26:15My friends, the era of government that deems an issue too small or a crisis too big must come to an end.
26:26Because we need a government that is every bit as ambitious as our adversaries.
26:35A government strong enough to refuse the realities we will not accept and forge the future we know we deserve.
26:44A government that refuses to accept one in four New Yorkers living in poverty.
26:53That refuses to accept more than 150,000 public school students being homeless.
27:01That refuses to accept that two union salaries are not enough to put down a mortgage in this city.
27:09And a government that refuses to accept you being priced out of the very city you helped to build every single day.
27:24Time and again, our nation has teetered on the precipice of hopelessness.
27:31Now is one of those times.
27:33But in each of these moments, working people have reached into the darkness and reshaped our democracy.
27:43No longer will we allow the Republican Party to be the one of ambition.
27:49No longer will we have to open a history book to read about Democrats leading with big ideas.
27:58My friends, the world is changing.
28:06It's not a question of whether that change will come.
28:10It's a question of who will change it.
28:13We have an opportunity before us that few have ever received and even fewer have seized.
28:22It's the opportunity to show the world what it means to win freedom.
28:31It is the opportunity to live up to the legacy left by those who came before.
28:37We do not get to determine the scale of a crisis.
28:42Our choice is how we respond.
28:45Let us win a city hall that works for those straining to buy groceries, not those straining to buy our democracy.
28:56And let us look forward to January 1st, when the hard work of governing will begin.
29:12Those in power would like to describe our policy commitments as if they are illusions that will evaporate as soon as we approach City Hall.
29:22Let us show them instead that they are invocations of the future that we will win.
29:29And let us prove to each and every New Yorker that a politics of expansion does not just mean imagination.
29:42It insists upon fulfillment.
29:44We can make City Hall a place where New Yorkers come to expect the future, not just failure.
29:57But we are not there yet.
30:00Just as Andrew Cuomo's victory in the primary was thought to be inevitable, the same narrative has started to form around us today.
30:09When you read the articles that tell a post-election story of triumph while we are amidst early voting, when you see the Calci odds that have our chances of victory in the 90s,
30:24know this, you are reading the same things that Andrew Cuomo read when he went to sleep each night in June, believing that his victory was promised.
30:37We cannot allow complacency to infiltrate this movement.
30:41So over these nine final days, I ask for only one thing from each of you.
30:54More.
30:55More.
31:05I know you are tired.
31:10And for that, I recommend some Adani chai.
31:14And still, I ask for more.
31:17I ask for more.
31:18I know the attacks have intensified that a warm bed is more inviting than a six-floor walk-up, that another evening spent knocking doors after a long workday feels daunting.
31:32And still, I ask for more.
31:34I ask for more because that is the only way that we win a future of more.
31:42So if you are able, I urge you, my friends, stand up.
31:52If you have knocked a door, turn your flashlight on.
31:57Turn your flashlight on.
32:11If you will knock a door, turn your flashlight on.
32:15If you have more to give, turn your flashlight on.
32:21Together, let us make a light bright enough to banish any darkness.
32:34Over these final nine days and the months and years that follow, the powers that be will throw everything in their arsenal against us.
32:44They will spend millions more dollars.
32:49They will attack us from every conceivable angle.
32:53But we will not bend.
32:55We will not flinch.
33:00We will triumph over the oligarchs and we will return dignity to our lives.
33:07Nearly 89 years ago to the day, FDR spoke before a crowd of thousands at Madison Square Garden.
33:21He said, I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it, the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match.
33:33My friends, I should like to have it said of our campaign that in it, the forces of selfishness and lust for power met their match.
33:54And I should like to have it said of our city hall that in it, these forces met their master.
34:03New York, our work has only just begun.
34:08New York, our work has only just begun.
34:21On November 4th, we set ourselves free.
34:59We are always running for the thrill of it, thrill of it.
35:05Always pushing up the hill, searching for the thrill of it.
35:09All at all at all, we are calling out, not again.
35:13Never looking down, just ignore what's in front of me.
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