00:00I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.
00:04I am Muslim.
00:09I am a democratic socialist.
00:16President Trump, when I say this,
00:19to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
00:30When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high.
00:37We will meet them.
00:42A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.
00:49If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.
01:00And we must chart a new path, as bold as the one we have already traveled.
01:06After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate.
01:13I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.
01:18I am Muslim.
01:23I am a democratic socialist.
01:25And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.
01:39And yet, if tonight teaches us anything,
01:43it is that convention has held us back.
01:46We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.
01:54Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party.
01:59And too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind.
02:05We will leave mediocrity in our past.
02:10No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great.
02:19Our greatness will be anything but abstract.
02:23It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month.
02:29Knowing the amount they're going to pay hasn't soared since the month before.
02:38It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for.
02:45And whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of child care didn't send them to Long Island.
02:52It will be felt by the single mother who is safe on her commute and whose bus runs fast enough
03:01that she doesn't have to rush school drop-off to make it to work on time.
03:07And it will be felt when New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning
03:13and read headlines of success, not scandal.
03:16Most of all, it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love
03:25finally loves them back.
03:32Together, New York, we're going to freeze the...
03:36Together, New York, we're going to make buses fast and...
03:41Together, New York, we're going to deliver a universal...
03:47Let the words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together,
03:55become the agenda we deliver together.
04:03New York, this power, it's yours.
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