00:00You're a proud democratic socialist. It's clear Republicans' plan to use you and that platform as an attack point come
00:09the midterms.
00:10Do you feel pressure to prove that your brand of democratic socialism works before the midterms?
00:18I feel pressure from New Yorkers to deliver for them on their day-to-day needs.
00:22If Republicans want to attack a record of making it easier for families to raise their kids in the city,
00:27of workers to get paid what they're owed, of New Yorkers to get around the five boroughs, they can feel
00:32free to attack that.
00:33But what they will find is that the reason so many people across the city and across the country have
00:37lost faith in politics
00:38is because of that sense that politics has less and less of a relevance to their day-to-day needs.
00:43And in fact, one of the most relevant things that we can be doing in our politics today is addressing
00:47the material needs of working-class people.
00:49That's exactly what we focused on.
00:50What I'm asking is, whether you like it or not, you have been made to seem like a boogeyman of
00:56some kind.
00:56From the Republicans, especially when you were running.
00:59So do you feel an added sense of pressure nationally because of the face you've become of the Democratic Party,
01:05and specifically the progressive part of this party?
01:08I'll be honest with you, I don't let myself think too much about what Republicans seek to portray me as.
01:14The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery.
01:18Delivery, at the end of the day, is every single thing that we want to do.
01:21It's why I spoke on Sunday about pothole politics as a way we describe the work that we do.
01:26Because for a long time, Republicans have sought to describe themselves as being driven by the needs of working people,
01:33when in reality we've seen a chasm in what they've actually delivered for those people.
01:36I mean, look at the war in Iran today.
01:38We're talking about a federal administration that has spent close to $30 billion killing thousands of people
01:44at a time when working-class people across this country cannot afford the bare minimum.
01:49To be told that a city-run grocery store is implausible, but spending more than $500 million a day to
01:56kill people in Iran and Lebanon is not only plausible but necessary.
01:59It speaks to a broken kind of politics.
02:01And what we're showing is that we can put forward not just our principles, but also the practical impacts of
02:07this work.
02:07We can deliver universal childcare and change 6,700 catch basins.
02:12We can take on bad landlords across the city and start to repave more than a thousand miles of roadway.
02:18We can do all of these things where we've been told in the past you can only do one.
02:22Has the war in Iran had an outsized impact specifically on the economy of this city?
02:26Yes, the war in Iran has had an impact on the economy of this country.
02:29And even more than the economy, it's had an impact on the people.
02:37So ソー
