Thank you to the elected officials, labor and movement leaders here with us tonight. And thank you to New York’s Attorney General Tish James. For years, you have fought the good fight for New Yorkers, and now it’s our time to fight for you.
There is something special in this room tonight. It’s power. It’s the power of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers united, ready to usher in a new day. It is the power of a movement that won the battle over the soul of the Democratic Party. That put Andrew Cuomo’s vision of austerity and smallness firmly where it belongs: on a ballot line no one’s ever heard of.
It is power larger than any single person working together for a New York where dignity is delivered to all.
And it is the power of a campaign that for the second time in five months stands on the precipice of victory. Three weeks from tomorrow, we will win again.
That is only possible because of you. This campaign has built the largest volunteer effort of any in New York City history. There are 3,200 people in this theater tonight. And alongside all of you, there are over 80,000 more across our city — in Brownsville, in Parkchester, in Flushing, and right here in Washington Heights, New Yorkers who have knocked doors, phone banked, and registered voters day after day, week after week, month after month. You have worked this hard for one simple reason: to fundamentally reimagine what is possible in New York City.
Now, there are some who oppose that vision. Billionaires like Bill Ackman and Ronald Lauder have poured millions of dollars into this race because they say that we pose an existential threat.
And I am here to admit something. They are right.
We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.
We are an existential threat to a broken status quo that buries the voices of working people beneath corporations.
And we are an existential threat to a New York where a hard day’s work isn’t…
Auteur: Zohran Mamdani
