Lawrence M. O'Donnell

New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants.

And as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

So hear me, President Trump, when I say this.

To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high.

We will meet them.

A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.

If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.

And we must chart a new path, as bold as the one we have already traveled.

After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate.

I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.

I am Muslim.

I am a democratic socialist.

And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.