New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani reacts to President Donald Trump's threats to defund the Big Apple if the democratic socialist wins city hall.
Mamdani spoke to the media after casting his vote.
00:00There are many things that he will say and that he will do that will not actually bear out in the results within our own city.
00:07Today is election day. It is a day that we have been dreaming of for more than a year.
00:14And as much as things have changed over the course of this campaign, in many ways it is the same campaign we launched on October 23rd.
00:21A campaign that looks to transform the most expensive city in the United States of America into one that's affordable for each and every person that calls it home.
00:31And I'm so thankful to the more than 100,000 volunteers who have brought us to this point.
00:39Where we are on the brink of making history in our city.
00:42On the brink of saying goodbye to a politics of the past.
00:47A politics that tells you what it can't do and really what it means to say is what it won't do.
00:53And to usher in a new era in this city where we understand that we do not get to choose the scale of the crisis we face.
01:02We simply get to choose the manner in which we respond.
01:06And it is time to finally respond with the urgency that New Yorkers deserve.
01:11An urgency that reckons with these same New Yorkers having had to face rent hike after rent hike, year after year.
01:20These same New Yorkers having to wait for buses that never come.
01:24These same New Yorkers that have to move out of this city when they want to raise a family.
01:28And these same New Yorkers who have grown tired of going on street easy to find apartments in Jersey City because that's the only place they could consider affording.
01:36It is time now for a new day in our politics.
01:41And it is an honor and a privilege to be a part of a movement that has fought every single day to bring that day forward.
01:48And today we have until 9 p.m. to say that our time has come.
01:53President Trump says he plans to reduce federal funding if you win.
01:57What are your thoughts on that?
01:58President Trump also encouraged every New Yorker to vote for Andrew Cuomo.
02:02There are many things that he will say and that he will do that will not actually bear out in the results within our own city.
02:09I will treat his threats as they deserve to be treated, which are the words of a president and not necessarily the law of the land.
02:16And too often we treat anything that he says by virtue of who's saying it as if it is already that law.
02:21And it is time that we have a mayor who stands up for New Yorkers each and every day,
02:25not one who's willing to sacrifice those New Yorkers so that they can stand up for themselves.
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