00:00but as Eugene Debs once said I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity
00:12tonight against all odds we have grasped it
00:21the future is in our hands my friends we have toppled a political dynasty
00:40the sun may have set over our city this evening but as Eugene Debs once said
00:49I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity
00:55for as long as we can remember the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the
01:07well-connected that power does not belong in their hands fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the
01:16warehouse floor palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars knuckles scarred with kitchen burns
01:24these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power and yet over the last 12 months
01:31you have dared to reach for something greater
01:35tonight against all odds we have grasped it
01:44the future is in our hands
01:50my friends we have toppled a political dynasty
01:57I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life
02:15but let tonight be the final time I utter his name
02:23as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few
02:32New York tonight you have delivered a mandate for change
02:44a mandate for a new kind of politics a mandate for a city we can afford and a mandate for a
02:58government that delivers exactly that on January 1st I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City
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