Democrat Zohran Mamdani delivers statements after winning the New York City mayoral election. teleSUR
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00:00Join us as we go live to the United States as Democrat Sora Mandani, the winner of the
00:09mayoral election in New York City, is offering statements. We listen to the statements of Sora Mandani.
00:15Sora Mandani.
00:46Palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns.
00:53These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.
00:57And yet over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater.
01:07Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.
01:15The future is in our hands.
01:21My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
01:38I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life.
01:45But let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
01:52As we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.
02:00New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change.
02:12A mandate for a new kind of politics.
02:18A mandate for a city we can afford.
02:23And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.
02:29On January 1st, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City.
02:36And that is because of you.
02:50So before I say anything else, I must say this.
02:57Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past.
03:11You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership.
03:24We will fight for you because we are you.
03:28Or as we say on Steinway,
03:31Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own.
03:46I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.
04:07Yes, aunties.
04:09To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point.
04:20Know this.
04:22This city is your city and this democracy is yours too.
04:31This campaign is about people like Wesley.
04:34An 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night.
04:41A New Yorker who lives elsewhere.
04:44Who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city.
04:53It's about people like the woman I met on the BX 33 years ago.
04:56Who said to me, I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live.
05:05And it's about people like Richard.
05:08The taxi driver I went on a 15 day hunger strike with outside of City Hall.
05:17Who still has to drive his cab seven days a week.
05:20My brother, we are in City Hall now.
05:21This victory is for all of them.
05:35And it's for all of you.
05:39The more than 100,000 volunteers who built this campaign into an unstoppable force.
05:46Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again.
05:55With every door knocked, every petition signature earned, and every hard-earned conversation,
06:05you eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics.
06:09Now I know that I have asked for much from you over this last year.
06:20Time and again, you have answered my calls.
06:26But I have one final request.
06:30New York City, breathe this moment in.
06:34We have held our breath for longer than we know.
06:42We have held it in anticipation of defeat.
06:45Held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count.
06:50Held it because we cannot afford to exhale.
06:52Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn.
07:01To my campaign team, who believed when no one else did.
07:11And who took an electoral project and turned it into so much more.
07:18I will never be able to express the depth of my gratitude.
07:23You can sleep now.
07:27To my parents, Mama and Baba.
07:33You have made me into the man I am today.
07:38You have made me into the man I am today.
07:42I am so proud to be your son.
07:48And to my incredible wife, Rama.
07:55Hayati.
07:56There is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment and in every moment.
08:06To every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for one of my opponents or felt too disappointed by politics to vote at all.
08:15Thank you for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of your trust.
08:19I will wake each morning with a singular purpose.
08:26To make this city better for you than it was the day before.
08:32There are many who thought this day would never come.
08:36Who feared that we would be condemned only to a future of less.
08:40With every election consigning us simply to more of the same.
08:44And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn.
08:53New York, we have answered those fears.
09:01Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice.
09:04Hope is alive.
09:09Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day.
09:15Volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad.
09:23More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy.
09:32And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.
09:42Hope over tyranny.
09:44Hope over big money and small ideas.
09:48Hope over despair.
09:50Hope over despair.
09:52We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.
10:00Hope over despair.
10:02We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.
10:05And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us.
10:08Now it is something that we do.
10:11Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru.
10:25A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new.
10:32When an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
10:38Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.
10:41So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom.
10:54This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve.
11:01Rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.
11:05Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorella Guardia.
11:19An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent stabilized tenants.
11:29Make buses fast and free.
11:34And deliver universal childcare across our city.
11:41Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come.
11:52This new age will be one of relentless improvement.
11:59We will hire thousands more teachers.
12:02We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy.
12:07We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered.
12:17Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on.
12:36Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception.
12:47In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another.
12:59In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
13:06Here, we believe in standing up for those we love.
13:12Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job.
13:24A single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down.
13:31Or anyone else with their back against the wall.
13:35Your struggle is ours too.
13:37And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism.
13:52Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.
13:58Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.
14:06No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.
14:17This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another.
14:35We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.
14:46For years, those in city hall have only helped those who can help them.
14:52But on January 1st, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone.
15:03Now I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation.
15:09Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality.
15:14And to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them.
15:20As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour.
15:32They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long broken system.
15:45We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore.
15:51They can play by the same rules as the rest of us.
15:58Together, we will usher in a generation of change.
16:03And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it,
16:08we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
16:16After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him,
16:27it is the city that gave rise to him.
16:34And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
16:42This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.
16:50So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.
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