NYC Election Victory Speech Part II: ‘I Am a Muslim’ Mamdani Delivers Iconic Moment On Stage

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00:00Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru.

00:07A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new,

00:13when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

00:19Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.

00:22So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood

00:31about what this new age will deliver and for whom.

00:36This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve,

00:43rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.

00:47Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis

00:57that this city has seen since the days of Fiora LaGuardia.

01:06An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants.

01:11Make buses fast and free.

01:19And deliver universal child care across our city.

01:27Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come.

01:35This new age will be one of relentless improvement.

01:41We will hire thousands more teachers.

01:47We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy.

01:51We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments

01:58where they have long flickered.

01:59Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime

02:10and create a department of community safety

02:13that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head-on.

02:20Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception.

02:25In this new age we make for ourselves,

02:32we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another.

02:41In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.

02:50Here, we believe in standing up for those we love.

02:53Whether you are an immigrant,

02:57a member of the trans community,

03:00one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job,

03:07a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down,

03:12or anyone else with their back against the wall,

03:17your struggle is ours too.

03:19And we will build a city hall

03:25that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers

03:29and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism.

03:36Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.

03:40Not just in the five boroughs of this city,

03:46but in the halls of power.

03:51No more will New York be a city

03:54where you can traffic in Islamophobia

03:57and win an election.

03:58This new age will be defined by a competence

04:12and a compassion

04:13that have too long been placed at odds with one another.

04:18We will prove

04:19that there is no problem too large for government to solve

04:22and no concern too small for it to care about.

04:28For years,

04:30those in city hall have only helped those who can help them.

04:34But on January 1st,

04:37we will usher in a city government

04:39that helps everyone.

04:40Now I know that many have heard our message

04:47only through the prism of misinformation.

04:51Tens of millions of dollars have been spent

04:54to redefine reality

04:56and to convince our neighbors

04:58that this new age is something that should frighten them.

05:01As has so often occurred,

05:06the billionaire class has sought to convince

05:08those making $30 an hour

05:10that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour.

05:16They want the people to fight amongst ourselves

05:19so that we remain distracted

05:21from the work of remaking a long broken system.

05:26We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore.

05:31They can play by the same rules

05:35as the rest of us.

05:40Together,

05:41we will usher in a generation of change.

05:45And if we embrace

05:46this brave new course,

05:48rather than fleeing from it,

05:50we can respond to oligarchy

05:52and authoritarianism

05:54with the strength it fears,

05:56not the appeasement it craves.

06:01After all,

06:04if anyone can show a nation

06:06betrayed by Donald Trump

06:07how to defeat him,

06:09it is the city that gave rise to him.

06:12And if there is any way

06:18to terrify a despot,

06:20it is by dismantling

06:21the very conditions

06:22that allowed him to accumulate power.

06:25This is not only how we stop Trump,

06:31it is how we stop the next one.

06:37So Donald Trump,

06:39since I know you are watching,

06:42I have four words for you.

06:47Turn the volume up.

06:49We will hold bad landlords to account

07:14because the Donald Trumps of our city

07:17have grown far too comfortable

07:19taking advantage of their tenants.

07:23We will put an end

07:24to the culture of corruption

07:26that has allowed billionaires like Trump

07:28to evade taxation

07:30and exploit tax breaks.

07:34We will stand alongside unions

07:37and expand labor protections

07:39because we know,

07:41just as Donald Trump does,

07:44that when working people

07:47have ironclad rights,

07:48the bosses who seek to extort them

07:51become very small indeed.

07:56New York will remain

07:58a city of immigrants,

08:00a city built by immigrants,

08:03powered by immigrants,

08:06and as of tonight,

08:11led by an immigrant.

08:12So hear me,

08:29President Trump,

08:30when I say this,

08:31to get to any of us,

08:33you will have to get through

08:35all of us.

08:36When we enter City Hall

08:45in 58 days,

08:47expectations will be high.

08:50We will meet them.

08:54A great New Yorker once said

08:57that while you campaign in poetry,

08:59you govern in prose.

09:01If that must be true,

09:04let the prose we write

09:06still rhyme

09:07and let us build

09:08a shining city for all.

09:13And we must chart a new path,

09:16as bold as the one

09:17we have already traveled.

09:19After all,

09:20the conventional wisdom

09:22would tell you

09:22that I am far

09:23from the perfect candidate.

09:24I am young,

09:27despite my best efforts

09:28to grow older.

09:30I am Muslim.

09:35I am a democratic socialist.

09:42And most damning of all,

09:45I refuse to apologize

09:46for any of this.

09:47And yet,

09:53if tonight teaches us anything,

09:56it is that convention

09:57has held us back.

10:00We have bowed

10:02at the altar of caution

10:03and we have paid

10:04a mighty price.

10:07Too many working people

10:08cannot recognize themselves

10:10in our party.

10:11And too many among us

10:13have turned to the right

10:15for answers to why

10:16they've been left behind.

10:18We will leave mediocrity

10:20in our past.

10:23No longer will we have

10:24to open a history book

10:26for proof that Democrats

10:27can dare to be great.

10:32Our greatness

10:33will be anything

10:34but abstract.

10:36It will be felt

10:37by every rent-stabilized tenant

10:40who wakes up

10:40on the first of every month.

10:44Knowing the amount

10:45they're going to pay

10:47hasn't soared

10:48since the month before.

10:50It will be felt

10:51by each grandparent

10:53who can afford

10:54to stay in the home

10:55they have worked for.

10:58And whose grandchildren

10:59live nearby

11:00because the cost

11:01of child care

11:03didn't send them

11:04to Long Island.

11:06It will be felt

11:08by the single mother

11:09who is safe

11:10on her commute

11:11and whose bus

11:12runs fast enough

11:13that she doesn't have

11:14to rush school drop-off

11:16to make it to work on time.

11:20And it will be felt

11:21when New Yorkers

11:23open their newspapers

11:25in the morning

11:25and read headlines

11:27of success

11:28not scandal.

11:29Most of all

11:33it will be felt

11:35by each New Yorker

11:36when the city

11:37they love

11:37finally loves

11:39them back.

11:44Together

11:45New York

11:46we're going to

11:48freeze the

11:49together

11:50New York

11:52we're going to

11:53make buses

11:53fast and

11:54together

11:56New York

11:57we're going to

11:58deliver a universal

11:59let the words

12:03we've spoken

12:04together

12:04the dreams

12:06we've dreamt

12:07together

12:07become the

12:09agenda

12:09we deliver

12:10together.

12:16New York

12:17this power

12:19it's yours

12:21this city

12:23belongs

12:24to you

12:25thank you

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