0:02 Thank you, MY FRIENDS.
0:10 >> >> THE SUN MAY HAVE set over our city this evening.
0:16 But as Eugene DEBS ONCE SAID,
0:22 "I CAN SEE THE DAWN OF A BETTER DAY FOR HUMANITY."
0:30 >> >> FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN REMEMBER,
0:32 the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy
0:37 and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands.
0:42 Fingers bruised from lifting BOXES ON THE WAREHOUSE FLOOR,
0:48 PALMS CALLOUSED from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns.
0:55 These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.
0:59 AND YET OVER THE LAST 12 months,
1:02 you have dared to reach for something greater.
1:10 >> >> Tonight, AGAINST ALL ODDS, WE HAVE GRASPED IT.
1:17 >> >> THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS.
1:23 >> >> MY FRIENDS, we have toppled A POLITICAL DYNASTY.
1:41 >> >> I WISH ANDREW CUOMO ONLY THE BEST IN PRIVATE LIFE.
1:48 >> >> BUT LET TONIGHT BE THE FINAL TIME I UTTER HIS NAME >>
1:56 >> AS WE TURN THE PAGE ON A POLITICS
1:58 THAT ABANDONS THE MANY
2:00 AND ANSWERS ONLY TO THE FEW.
2:07 >> >> NEW YORK, TONIGHT YOU HAVE DELIVERED >> >> a mandate FOR CHANGE.
2:17 A MANDATE FOR A NEW KIND OF POLITICS.
2:22 A MANDATE FOR A CITY WE CAN AFFORD.
2:26 AND A MANDATE FOR A GOVERNMENT that delivers EXACTLY THAT.
2:33 >> >> ON JANUARY 1ST, I WILL BE sworn in
2:38 as the mayor of NEW YORK CITY.
2:49 >> >> AND THAT IS BECAUSE OF YOU.
2:54 >> >> SO BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE, I MUST say this.
2:59 THANK YOU.
3:02 >> >> THANK YOU TO THE NEXT GENERATION of New Yorkers WHO REFUSED TO
3:08 ACCEPT THAT THE PROMISE OF A BETTER FUTURE was a relic of THE PAST.
3:15 YOU SHOWED THAT WHEN POLITICS SPEAKS TO YOU WITHOUT CONDESCENSION,
3:19 we can usher in a new era of leadership.
3:25 >> >> WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU because we are you.
3:30 >> >> OR AS WE SAY ON STEINWAY, "ANAMINKUM WA ILAYKUM."
3:40 >> >> THANK YOU TO THOSE
3:42 SO OFTEN FORGOTTEN BY THE politics of our city who made this movement their
3:47 own.
3:49 I SPEAK OF YEMENI BODEGA OWNERS AND MEXICAN ABUELAS.
3:56 SENEGALESE TAXI DRIVERS AND UZBEK NURSES.
4:02 >> >> TRINIDADIAN LINE COOKS AND ETHIOPIAN AUNTIES.
4:14 YES, AUNTIES.
4:14 >> >> TO EVERY NEW YORKER IN Kensington and Midwood AND HUNTS POINT, >> >> KNOW THIS.
4:23 THIS city is your city and this democracy IS YOURS, TOO.
4:33 >> >> THIS CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE WESLEY,
4:36 an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night.
4:43 >> >> A New Yorker who lives elsewhere,
4:46 who commutes 2 hours each way from Pennsylvania
4:49 because rent is too expensive in this city.
4:54 It's about PEOPLE LIKE THE WOMAN I MET on the BX33 YEARS AGO WHO
4:59 SAID TO ME,
5:00 "I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live."
5:06 And it's about people like Richard,
5:10 THE TAXI DRIVER I WENT ON A 15-DAY hunger strike WITH OUTSIDE OF CITY
5:14 HALL,
5:19 >> >> WHO STILL HAS TO DRIVE HIS CAB 7 DAYS A WEEK.
5:24 MY BROTHER, WE ARE IN CITY HALL NOW.
5:33 >> >> THIS VICTORY IS FOR ALL OF THEM.
5:38 AND IT'S FOR ALL OF YOU.
5:41 THE MORE THAN 100,000 volunteers who built this campaign INTO AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE.
5:50 >> >> BECAUSE OF YOU, we will make this city one
5:53 that working people can love
5:55 and live in again.
5:59 WITH EVERY DOOR KNOCKED, EVERY PETITION SIGNATURE EARNED, AND EVERY HARD-EARNED CONVERSATION,
6:07 YOU ERODED THE CYNICISM THAT HAS COME TO DEFINE our politics.
6:16 Now I know that I have asked for much from you over this last
6:21 year.
6:23 Time and again, you have answered my calls.
6:28 But I have one final request.
6:32 >> >> New York City, BREATHE THIS MOMENT IN.
6:39 WE HAVE HELD OUR BREATH FOR LONGER THAN we know.
6:43 We have held it in ANTICIPATION OF DEFEAT.
6:46 HELD IT BECAUSE the air has been knocked OUT OF OUR LUNGS TOO MANY
6:50 TIMES TO COUNT.
6:51 HELD IT BECAUSE WE CANNOT AFFORD TO EXHALE.
6:55 THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE WHO SACRIFICED SO MUCH,
6:59 WE ARE BREATHING IN THE air of a city that has been reborn.
7:08 To my campaign team, who believed WHEN NO ONE ELSE DID,
7:15 >> >> AND WHO TOOK AN ELECTORAL PROJECT AND TURNED IT INTO SO MUCH MORE,
7:20 I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO EXPRESS THE DEPTH OF MY GRATITUDE.
7:27 You can sleep now.
7:31 TO MY PARENTS, MAMA AND BABA,
7:39 >> >> YOU HAVE MADE ME INTO THE man I am today.
7:44 I AM SO PROUD TO BE your son.
7:49 AND TO MY INCREDIBLE WIFE, RAMA, HAYATTIE,
7:59 >> >> THERE IS NO ONE I would rather have by my side in
8:02 this moment and in every moment.
8:08 >> >> To every New Yorker, WHETHER YOU VOTED FOR ME, FOR ONE OF MY OPPONENTS,
8:12 OR FELT TOO DISAPPOINTED BY POLITICS to vote at all,
8:16 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY to prove myself worthy of YOUR TRUST.
8:23 >> >> I WILL WAKE EACH MORNING with a singular purpose,
8:27 to make this city better for you than it was the day before.
8:34 There are many WHO THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME,
8:37 WHO FEARED THAT WE WOULD BE CONDEMNED ONLY TO A FUTURE OF LESS,
8:41 with every election consigning us simply to more of the same.
8:47 And there are others who see politics today
8:50 as too cruel for THE FLAME OF HOPE TO STILL BURN.
8:55 NEW YORK, WE HAVE ANSWERED THOSE FEARS.
9:02 TONIGHT, we have spoken in a clear voice.
9:05 HOPE IS ALIVE.
9:10 >> >> HOPE IS A DECISION
9:12 THAT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW YORKERS MADE DAY AFTER DAY,
9:16 VOLUNTEER SHIFT AFTER VOLUNTEER SHIFT, DESPITE attack ad after attack ad.
9:24 >> >> More than a million OF US STOOD IN OUR CHURCHES, in gymnasiums,
9:29 in community centers as we filled in the ledger of democracy.
9:36 >> >> And while WE CAST OUR BALLOTS ALONE, we chose hope together.
9:44 HOPE OVER TYRANNY.
9:46 HOPE OVER BIG MONEY AND SMALL IDEAS.
9:51 HOPE OVER DESPAIR.
9:54 WE WON BECAUSE NEW YORKERS ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO HOPE
9:57 THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE COULD BE made possible.
10:02 >> >> And we won
10:03 because WE INSISTED THAT NO LONGER WOULD POLITICS be something
10:07 that is done to us.
10:09 Now it is something THAT WE DO.
10:20 >> >> STANDING BEFORE YOU I THINK OF THE WORDS OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.
10:27 A moment comes but rarely in history
10:30 when we step out from the old to the new.
10:33 When an age ends
10:35 and when the soul OF A NATION LONG SUPPRESSED FINDS UTTERANCE.
10:39 TONIGHT WE HAVE STEPPED OUT FROM the old INTO THE NEW.
10:46 >> >> SO LET US SPEAK NOW WITH CLARITY
10:48 AND CONVICTION that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver
10:54 and for whom.
10:56 THIS WILL BE AN AGE WHERE NEW YORKERS EXPECT FROM THEIR LEADERS A BOLD
11:01 VISION OF WHAT WE will achieve rather than A LIST OF EXCUSES FOR WHAT
11:05 we are too TIMID TO ATTEMPT.
11:12 >> >> CENTRAL TO
11:12 THAT VISION WILL BE THE MOST AMBITIOUS AGENDA TO TACKLE THE COST OF LIVING
11:17 CRISIS that this city has seen since the DAYS OF FIORELLO LAGUARDIA.
11:27 >> >> AN AGENDA
11:28 THAT WILL FREEZE THE RENTS FOR MORE THAN 2 MILLION RENT STABILIZED TENANTS.
11:35 >> >> MAKE BUSES FAST AND FREE.
11:40 AND DELIVER UNIVERSAL CHILD CARE ACROSS our city.
11:47 >> >> Years from now may our only regret BE
11:52 THAT THIS DAY took
11:53 so LONG TO COME.
11:58 >> >> THIS NEW AGE WILL BE ONE of relentless improvement.
12:02 WE WILL HIRE THOUSANDS MORE TEACHERS.
12:08 >> >> WE WILL CUT WASTE FROM A BLOATED BUREAUCRACY.
12:12 WE WILL WORK TIRELESSLY TO MAKE LIGHTS SHINE AGAIN IN THE HALLWAYS OF NYCHA
12:17 DEVELOPMENTS WHERE THEY HAVE LONG FLICKERED.
12:23 SAFETY AND JUSTICE WILL GO HAND IN HAND
12:27 AS WE WORK WITH POLICE OFFICERS TO REDUCE CRIME
12:30 AND CREATE A DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SAFETY
12:33 THAT TACKLES THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
12:36 AND HOMELESSNESS CRISES HEAD-ON.
12:41 EXCELLENCE WILL BECOME the expectation across government, not the exception.
12:49 In this new age we make for ourselves we will refuse to allow those
12:54 who traffic in division
12:56 and HATE TO PIT US AGAINST one another.
13:01 In this moment OF POLITICAL DARKNESS NEW YORK WILL BE THE LIGHT.
13:10 >> >> HERE WE BELIEVE IN STANDING UP FOR THOSE WE LOVE.
13:15 WHETHER YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT a member OF THE TRANS COMMUNITY >> >> ONE
13:22 OF THE MANY BLACK WOMEN
13:23 THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS FIRED FROM A FEDERAL JOB A SINGLE MOM STILL WAITING
13:29 FOR THE COST OF GROCERIES TO GO DOWN
13:34 OR ANYONE ELSE with their back against the wall your struggle is ours too.
13:43 And we WILL BUILD A CITY HALL
13:45 THAT STANDS STEADFAST ALONGSIDE JEWISH NEW YORKERS
13:49 AND DOES NOT WAVER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE SCOURGE OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
13:56 WHERE THE MORE THAN 1 MILLION MUSLIMS KNOW
13:59 THAT THEY BELONG >> >> NOT JUST IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF THIS CITY
14:07 BUT IN THE HALLS OF POWER.
14:12 >> >> NO MORE WILL NEW YORK BE A CITY WHERE YOU CAN TRAFFIC
14:16 IN ISLAMOPHOBIA AND WIN AN ELECTION.
14:29 >> >> THIS NEW AGE WILL BE DEFINED BY A COMPETENCE
14:32 and a compassion THAT HAVE TOO LONG been placed at odds with one another.
14:38 We will prove that there IS NO PROBLEM TOO LARGE FOR GOVERNMENT TO SOLVE
14:43 and no concern too small for it to care about.
14:48 >> >> For years those in city hall have only helped those who can help them.
14:55 BUT ON JANUARY 1ST we will usher in a city government that helps everyone.
15:05 NOW I KNOW THAT MANY HAVE HEARD OUR MESSAGE ONLY THROUGH THE PRISM of
15:11 misinformation.
15:11 TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN SPENT TO REDEFINE REALITY
15:16 and to convince our neighbors
15:18 that this new age is something
15:20 that should frighten them.
15:23 AS HAS SO OFTEN OCCURRED THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS has sought TO CONVINCE THOSE MAKING
15:29 $30 an hour that their ENEMIES ARE THOSE EARNING $20 an hour.
15:36 >> >> They want THE PEOPLE TO FIGHT AMONGST OURSELVES
15:39 SO THAT WE REMAIN DISTRACTED FROM THE WORK OF REMAKING A LONG BROKEN SYSTEM.
15:46 >> >> WE REFUSE TO LET THEM DICTATE THE RULES OF THE GAME ANYMORE.
15:53 >> >> THEY CAN PLAY BY THE SAME rules as the rest of us.
16:00 >> >> Together we will USHER IN A GENERATION of change.
16:05 AND IF WE EMBRACE THIS BRAVE NEW COURSE RATHER THAN FLEEING from it we
16:11 can respond to oligarchy
16:12 and authoritarianism with the strength it fears,
16:16 not the appeasement it craves.
16:22 >> >> After all
16:24 if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him
16:29 it is the city
16:30 that gave rise to him.
16:36 >> >> And if there is any way TO TERRIFY A DESPOT it is
16:40 by dismantling the very conditions
16:43 that allowed him TO ACCUMULATE POWER.
16:48 THIS IS NOT ONLY HOW WE STOP TRUMP,
16:51 IT'S HOW we stop the next one.
16:58 >> >> So Donald Trump SINCE I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING I HAVE FOUR WORDS for you.
17:07 TURN THE VOLUME UP.
17:31 >> >> WE WILL HOLD BAD LANDLORDS TO ACCOUNT
17:35 BECAUSE THE DONALD TRUMPS OF OUR CITY HAVE GROWN FAR TOO COMFORTABLE TAKING ADVANTAGE
17:40 OF THEIR TENANTS.
17:43 WE WILL PUT AN END TO THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
17:46 THAT HAS ALLOWED BILLIONAIRES LIKE TRUMP TO EVADE TAXATION
17:50 AND EXPLOIT TAX BREAKS.
17:55 WE WILL STAND ALONGSIDE UNIONS
17:57 AND EXPAND LABOR PROTECTIONS
17:59 BECAUSE WE KNOW >> >> JUST
18:03 AS DONALD TRUMP DOES
18:05 THAT WHEN WORKING PEOPLE HAVE IRONCLAD RIGHTS THE BOSSES WHO SEEK TO EXTORT THEM
18:11 BECOME VERY SMALL INDEED.
18:17 >> >> NEW YORK WILL remain a city OF IMMIGRANTS,
18:20 A CITY BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS POWERED BY IMMIGRANTS >> >>
18:28 AND AS OF TONIGHT LED BY AN IMMIGRANT.
18:47 >> >> SO HEAR ME PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN I SAY THIS,
18:51 TO GET TO ANY OF US YOU WILL HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL OF
18:55 US.
19:04 >> >> WHEN WE ENTER CITY HALL IN 58 days expectations will be high.
19:10 WE WILL MEET THEM.
19:15 >> >> A GREAT NEW YORKER ONCE SAID
19:17 THAT WHILE YOU CAMPAIGN IN POETRY YOU GOVERN IN PROSE.
19:23 >> >> IF THAT MUST BE TRUE LET THE PROSE WE WRITE STILL RHYME
19:27 AND LET US BUILD A SHINING CITY FOR ALL.
19:34 AND WE MUST CHART A NEW PATH
19:36 AS BOLD AS THE ONE WE HAVE ALREADY TRAVELED.
19:39 AFTER ALL THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WOULD TELL YOU
19:42 THAT I AM FAR from the perfect candidate.
19:46 I AM YOUNG DESPITE MY BEST EFFORTS TO GROW OLDER.
19:51 >> >> I AM MUSLIM.
19:56 I AM A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST.
20:03 >> >> AND MOST DAMNING OF ALL, I REFUSE TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANY OF THIS.
20:12 >> >> AND YET, IF TONIGHT teaches us anything,
20:16 it is that convention has held us back.
20:21 We have bowed at the altar of caution
20:23 and we have paid a mighty price.
20:27 Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party.
20:32 And too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why
20:36 they've been left behind.
20:39 We will leave mediocrity in our past.
20:43 NO LONGER WILL WE HAVE TO OPEN A HISTORY BOOK FOR PROOF
20:47 THAT DEMOCRATS can dare TO BE GREAT.
20:52 OUR GREATNESS WILL BE ANYTHING but abstract.
20:56 IT WILL BE FELT BY EVERY RENT-STABILIZED TENANT WHO WAKES up on the 1st
21:01 OF EVERY MONTH,
21:04 KNOWING THE AMOUNT THEY'RE GOING TO PAY hasn't soared since the month before.
21:11 IT WILL BE FELT BY EACH GRANDPARENT WHO CAN AFFORD TO STAY IN THE
21:14 HOME they have worked for.
21:18 AND WHOSE GRANDCHILDREN LIVE NEARBY
21:20 BECAUSE THE COST OF CHILD CARE DIDN'T SEND them to Long Island.
21:27 >> >> It will be felt BY THE SINGLE MOTHER WHO IS SAFE ON
21:30 HER COMMUTE AND WHOSE BUS RUNS FAST ENOUGH
21:33 THAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO RUSH school drop-off to make it to work on
21:37 time.
21:40 And it will be felt
21:42 when New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning
21:46 and read headlines of success,
21:48 not scandal.
21:52 >> >> Most of all, it will be felt BY EACH NEW YORKER
21:56 WHEN the city they love finally loves them back.
22:05 >> >> Together, New York, WE'RE GOING TO FREEZE THE TOGETHER, NEW YORK,
22:12 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE BUSES FAST AND TOGETHER, NEW YORK,
22:18 WE'RE GOING TO DELIVER UNIVERSAL LET THE WORDS WE'VE SPOKEN TOGETHER,
22:25 the dreams we've dreamt together, become the agenda WE DELIVER TOGETHER.
22:36 >> >> NEW YORK, this power, it's yours.
22:42 This city belongs to you.
22:48 Thank you.
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