00:00In 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.
00:12In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
00:21Here, we believe in standing up for those we love.
00:25Whether 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, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall, your struggle is ours too.
00:50And 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.
01:05Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.
01:15Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.
01:19No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.
01:29This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another.
01:48We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.
01:59For years, those in city hall have only helped those who can help them.
02:06But on January 1st, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone.
02:11Now I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation.
02:23Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them.
02:32As 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.
02:47They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long broken system.
02:57We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore.
03:02They can play by the same rules as the rest of us.
03:11Together, we will usher in a generation of change.
03:16And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it,
03:21we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
03:29After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him,
03:40it is the city that gave rise to him.
03:42And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
03:56This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.
04:04So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.
04:18Turn the volume up.
04:20We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable.
04:50taking advantage of their tenants.
04:54We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.
05:03We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know just as Donald Trump does,
05:16that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.
05:28New York will remain a city of immigrants.
05:31New York will remain a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.
05:43New York will remain a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.
05:55New York will remain a city לפa across the country to recognizeianoioè.
05:58So hear me, president Trump, when I say this to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
06:06when we enter City Hall in 58 days expectations will be high we will meet them a great New Yorker
06:27once said that while you campaign in poetry you govern in prose if that must be true let
06:36the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all and we must chart a new path
06:46as bold as the one we have already traveled after all the conventional wisdom would tell
06:53you that I am far from the perfect candidate I am young despite my best efforts to grow older I
07:00am Muslim I am a democratic socialist
07:09and most damning of all I refuse to apologize for any of this
07:19and yet if tonight teaches us anything it is that convention has held us back
07:30we have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price too many working people cannot
07:40recognize themselves in our party and too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why
07:47they've been left behind we will leave mediocrity in our past no longer will we have to open a history
07:57book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great our greatness will be anything but abstract it will
08:08be felt by every rent stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month knowing the amount
08:16they're going to pay hasn't soared since the month before it will be felt by each grandparent who can
08:24afford to stay in the home they have worked for and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of
08:33childcare didn't send them to Long Island it will be felt by the single mother who is safe on her commute and
08:42whose bus runs fast enough that she doesn't have to rush school drop-off to make it to work on time
08:48and it will be felt when New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning and read headlines of success not scandal
09:00most of all it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love finally loves them back
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