Sen. Bernie Sanders

Nobody heard of him.

He decided he wanted to run for mayor.

He was at 1% in the polls.

He was taking on the Democratic establishment and said, who the hell do you think you are?

Taking on the Republican establishment.

Taking on the oligarchs in the city.

People, front page, New York Times, we're going to spend tens of millions of dollars to defeat this guy.

You know what he did?

Not only, I mean, he's a brilliant guy himself and a very good politician, but he had 90,000 plus people in this city knocking on doors for him.

So you ask me, am I optimistic?

Can we bring about change?

I would say New York City is a pretty good example of what happens when people come.

And he said, you know what, I'm going to make this city great.

work for working people, not just the billionaire class.

Amen.

And he's just been, you know, in office for three or four weeks.

I think he's doing great.

But you asked me about my optimism.

When I see 90,000 people going out on the streets, volunteering for this guy and he's implementing, he was out, you know, we talked about being on the nurses picket line today.

He was there with me standing with the nurses.