Jon Stewart

You know, for all of the focus on rallies, on commercials, on debates, it really comes back to people speaking to other New Yorkers about the city that we all love.

We have 90,000 volunteers right now.

On your campaign?

On our campaign.

And it's 90,000 people who are picking up the phone, phone banking someone that they don't know.

90,000 people who have knocked on a door of a New Yorker they've never met.

90,000 people who just wait for 15 seconds and then hope that someone will open that door.

What do New Yorkers love more than anything?

It's strangers coming to the door.

Yes, yes.

Or calling them.

Yes.

You know, I think this is the thing, is that for people that we're often characterized as being rude, I will tell you that New Yorkers have been so kind in the experiences they've had with our volunteers, because what they're speaking to is another New Yorker.

Right.

And it's an understanding that politics is not something you have.

It's something that you do.

In this moment where politics has become just another word for division, for not just Republicans, but also Democrats, these New Yorkers are ones who've understood that you never hate someone more than before you know them.

And knocking on that door, having that conversation doesn't just win the election for us.

It also starts to build the city that we want to lead.

What's the kind of feedback that you get from your volunteers in the field?