Zohran Mamdani

Tonight against all odds, we have grasped it.

The future is in our hands.

My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.

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.

Oftentimes we've even found as legislators, when we go into these courts, the term violent crime is even used when people are stealing packages.

Violent crime is even used when people are accused of burglary and there happens to be a housing unit in that same dwelling.

So violence is an artificial construction.

And we have to be very clear that what is happening here with these district attorneys, that is violence.

That is violence at the highest degree.

No, I have many critiques of capitalism.

And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago.

He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.

And that's what I'm focused on is dignity and taking on income inequality.

And for too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability.

We're actually actors and we have the choice to exacerbate it like Mayor Adams has done or to respond to it and resolve it like I'm planning to do.

Hän laittaa marbolla tätä, ja Kennedy Centerissä on kalliittisia rukkoja ja pöytä. Mitä tapahtuu, Zoran? Ei ollut kukaan New Yorkista, jolla puhuin, joka kertoi minulle, miksi he valitsivat Donaldun, että hän pysyisi 300 miljoonan dollarin renovatiivisuuteen White House Ballroomista.

And what I heard instead is exactly what you alluded to. New Yorkers who were fed up with the cost of living and who wanted a president who would deliver on the promise of cheaper groceries, deliver on the promise of lowering that cost of living. And instead, this $300 million, which could have been used to feed 100,000 New Yorkers, provide them with SNAP benefits, is instead being used for these personal refurbishments. And I think it just speaks to the fact that this isn't

about whether it's possible to do so. It's just a question of want. Donald Trump does not want to provide healthcare for 4 million Americans. He does not want to ensure that SNAP benefits continue for close to 2 million New Yorkers. He does not want to actually take care of the very people whose despair that he diagnosed and then whose support that he betrayed. And it's time to actually offer a politics in this country that doesn't just say that working people are struggling, but then does something about it.