Zoran Mamdani

The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said.

I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.

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.

Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city who made this movement their own.

I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas.

Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses.

Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.

Yes, aunties.

We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

This is not a job for a first-timer.

Any day, you could have a hurricane, you could have, God forbid, a 9-11, a health pandemic.