00:00There is still a voting wing that is, for whatever reason, more attached to the centrist factions of the Democratic
00:10Party.
00:11Do you think that your movement can ever coexist with those?
00:13Or is this really sort of an existential battle for where the party is going to go?
00:18I think we all belong to the big tent that is the Democratic Party.
00:21I think the question that is now in front of us is, where do we want to go?
00:24And what do we want this party to be?
00:26And I think for quite some time, we've defined ourselves purely in response to what the Republican Party is.
00:35And they have this seemingly limitless ambition for what it is that they want to accomplish, whereas we seem to
00:41be constructing an ever-lowering ceiling of possibility.
00:44And we know that in 2028, yes, we have an opportunity to move beyond the current federal administration.
00:51And that begs the question, to what?
00:53And I think that it is time to be able to not only have a vision, but to deliver on
00:59that vision.
00:59And what we're showing here in New York City is that it is possible to put working people back at
01:07the heart of our politics and then also deliver for them at the same time.
01:11And I think we talk about this in the language of pothole politics to show that there's no problem too
01:17big, no task too small, that, yes, we can deliver on universal child care while we also pave over 165
01:23,000 potholes.
01:24Because too often, New Yorkers have been asked to choose between their quality of life and the quality of the
01:33city's ambition.
01:33And it's time to show that, in fact, both of these things can be fulfilled at once.
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