Lawrence M. O'Donnell

We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us.

Now it is something that we do.

Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru.

A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.

So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom.

This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.

Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job,

A single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down.

Or anyone else with their back against the wall.

Your struggle is ours too.

And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism.

where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.

Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.

No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.

And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.

This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.

So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.

Turn the volume up!