00:00We have worked for many years to bring about change in New York City that it so urgently needs.
00:10He's been a friend and he is the next mayor of the Great Seattle.
00:30Thank you.
01:00Thank you, my friends.
01:18The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said,
01:30I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.
01:37For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands.
01:48Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery by candle bars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns.
02:02These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.
02:06And yet over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater.
02:12Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.
02:22The future is in our hands.
02:31My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
02:35I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life.
02:53But let tonight be the final time I utter his name.
03:01As we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few.
03:10New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change.
03:25A mandate for a new kind of politics.
03:29A mandate for a city we can afford.
03:34And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.
03:40On January 1st, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City.
03:56And that is because of you.
04:02So before I say anything else, I must say this.
04:07Thank you.
04:10Thank 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.
04:23You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership.
04:30We will fight for you because we are you.
04:35We will fight for you because we are you.
04:38Or as we say on Steinway,
04:40Anaminkum wa'ileikum.
04:42Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own.
04:56I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas.
05:04Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses.
05:07Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.
05:16Yes, aunties.
05:22To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point.
05:27Know this.
05:31This city is your city and this democracy is yours too.
05:36This campaign is about people like Wesley.
05:44An 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night.
05:51A New Yorker who lives elsewhere.
05:54Who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania.
05:57Because rent is too expensive in this city.
06:00It's about people like the woman I met on the BX 33 years ago.
06:06Who said to me,
06:08I used to love New York.
06:10But now it's just where I live.
06:14And it's about people like Richard.
06:18The taxi driver I went on a 15 day hunger strike with.
06:22Who still has to drive his cab seven days a week.
06:31My brother, we are in City Hall now.
06:41This victory is for all of them.
06:45And it's for all of you.
06:47The more than 100,000 volunteers who built this campaign into an unstoppable force.
06:58Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again.
07:07With every doorknock, every petition signature earned,
07:12And every hard-earned conversation,
07:15You eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics.
07:23Now I know that I have asked for much from you over this last year.
07:31Time and again, you have answered my calls.
07:35But I have one final request.
07:40New York City,
07:42Breathe this moment in.
07:47We have held our breath for longer than we know.
07:51We have held it in anticipation of defeat.
07:54Held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count.
07:59Held it because we cannot afford to exhale.
08:02Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much,
08:07We are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn.
08:15To my campaign team,
08:18Who believed when no one else did.
08:23And who took an electoral project and turned it into so much more.
08:27I will never be able to express the depth of my gratitude.
08:35You can sleep now.
08:39To my parents,
08:41Mama and Baba,
08:42You have made me into the man I am today.
08:50I am so proud to be your son.
08:57And to my incredible wife,
08:59Rama.
09:05Hayati,
09:06There is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment and in every moment.
09:12To every New Yorker,
09:17Whether you voted for me,
09:19For one of my opponents,
09:21Or felt too disappointed by politics to vote at all.
09:24Thank you for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of your trust.
09:28I will wake each morning with a singular purpose.
09:35To make this city better for you than it was the day before.
09:42There are many who thought this day would never come.
09:45Who feared that we would be condemned only to a future of less.
09:50With every election consigning us simply to more of the same.
09:54And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn.
10:02New York,
10:04We have answered those fears.
10:09Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice.
10:13Hope is alive.
10:18Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day.
10:24Volunteer shift after volunteer shift.
10:27Despite attack ad after attack ad.
10:31More than a million of us stood in our churches,
10:36In gymnasiums,
10:37In community centers,
10:39As we filled in the ledger of democracy.
10:43And while we cast our ballots alone,
10:47We chose hope together.
10:49Hope over tyranny.
10:54Hope over big money and small ideas.
10:58Hope over despair.
11:01We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.
11:10And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us.
11:17Now it is something that we do.
11:20Standing before you,
11:30I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru.
11:33A moment comes but rarely in history.
11:38When we step out from the old to the new.
11:41When an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
11:47Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.
11:50So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom.
12:03This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.
12:15Central 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 funeral aborting.
12:29An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants.
12:43Make buses fast and free.
12:47And deliver universal child care across our cities.
12:51Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come.
13:05This new age will be one of relentless improvement.
13:10We will hire thousands more teachers.
13:15We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy.
13:18We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flippered.
13:31Safety 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.
13:48Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception.
13:56In 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.
14:07In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
14:18Here, we believe in standing up for those we love.
14:23Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community,
14:28one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job,
14:34a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down,
14:40or anyone else with their back against the wall,
14:45your struggle is ours too.
14:48And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers
14:57and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism.
15:04Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.
15:08Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.
15:19No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.
15:26This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion
15:41that have too long been placed at odds with one another.
15:46We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve
15:51and no concern too small for it to care about.
15:54For years, those in city hall have only helped those who can help them.
16:03But on January 1st, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone.
16:13Now I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation.
16:20Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality.
16:24And to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them.
16:31As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour
16:38that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour.
16:44They want the people to fight amongst ourselves
16:47so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.
16:54We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore.
17:01They can play by the same rules as the rest of us.
17:05Together, we will usher in a generation of change.
17:13And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it,
17:19we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears,
17:24not the appeasement it craves.
17:26After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him,
17:37it is the city that gave rise to him.
17:39And if there is any way to terrify a despot,
17:48it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
17:53This is not only how we stop Trump,
17:59it's how we stop the next one.
18:05So Donald Trump,
18:08since I know you're watching,
18:09I have four words for you.
18:14Turn the volume up.
18:23We will call them bad manners to the tenants,
18:42because I believe the Transylator City
18:45have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.
18:49We will put an end to the city.
18:53We will build a culture of corruption
18:54that has allowed billionaires like Trump
18:57to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.
19:02We will stand alongside unions
19:05and expand labor protections,
19:07because we know,
19:10just as Donald Trump does,
19:13that when working people have ironclad rights,
19:16the bosses who seek to extort them
19:19become very small indeed.
19:23New York will remain a city of immigrants,
19:28a city built by immigrants,
19:31powered by immigrants,
19:34and as of tonight,
19:39led by an immigrant.
19:40to get to any of us,
20:01you will have to get through all of us.
20:04When we enter City Hall in 58 days,
20:15expectations will be high.
20:18We will meet them.
20:23A great New Yorker once said
20:25that while you campaign in poetry,
20:28you govern in prose.
20:29If that must be true,
20:33let the prose we write still rhyme,
20:35and let us build a shining city for all.
20:41And we must chart a new path,
20:44as bold as the one we have already traveled.
20:47After all,
20:49the conventional wisdom would tell you
20:51that I am far from the perfect candidate.
20:53I am young,
20:55despite my best efforts to grow older.
20:59I am Muslim.
21:04I am a democratic socialist.
21:06And most daring of all,
21:12I refuse to apologize for any of this.
21:20And yet,
21:21if tonight teaches us anything,
21:24it is that convention has held us back.
21:28We have bowed at the altar of caution,
21:31and we have paid a mighty price.
21:33Too many working people
21:36cannot recognize themselves in our party.
21:39And too many among us
21:41have turned to the right
21:43for answers to why they've been left behind.
21:47We will leave mediocrity in our past.
21:51No longer will we have to open a history book
21:54for proof that Democrats
21:56can dare to be great.
22:00Our greatness will be anything but abstract.
22:03It will be felt
22:05by every rent-stabilized tenant
22:08who wakes up on the first of our events.
22:12Knowing the amount they're going to pay
22:15hasn't soared since the month before.
22:18It will be felt by each grandparent
22:21who can afford to stay in the home
22:23they have worked for.
22:26And whose grandchildren live nearby
22:28because the cost of child care
22:31didn't send them to Long Island.
22:33It will be felt by the single mother
22:37who is safe on her commute
22:39and whose bus runs fast enough
22:41that she doesn't have to rush school drop-off
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