This is Zohran Mamdani. Thirteen days after we announced our candidacy for Mayor of New York City, Donald Trump won the presidency once again.
No matter what article you read, or channel you turned to, the story was the same: our city was headed to the right, and our political horizon was narrowing.
And in this moment, New York had a choice – to retreat or to fight.
The choice that our campaign made was to stop listening to those “experts” and to start listening to real people.
We went to places in the city that saw the biggest swings to the right. These New Yorkers told us they supported Trump because they felt disconnected from a Democratic Party that only gave its time to those who donated millions.
They felt abandoned by a party which asked them for votes after telling them only what it was against, rather than what it was for.
Trump, for all his flaws, had promised them an agenda that would put more money in their pockets and lower the cost of living. Donald Trump lied.
It was up to us to deliver for the working people he left behind.
Over the next year, we have told New Yorkers how we intend to address that very same affordability crisis.
This campaign began to grow faster than anyone ever imagined possible.
We climbed the polls faster than Andrew Cuomo could dial Donald Trump’s number.
People started to learn how to pronounce my name.
And when I won the primary with the most votes in any citywide primary in NYC history, the billionaires got scared.
Now, Andrew Cuomo and his corporate, Trump-supporting cronies are doing everything they can to buy this seat.
But we have a mass movement of everyday people who actually believe that government should make our lives better. And we are not slowing down.
We can demand a government that makes our lives better. We can tell billionaires and Donald Trump they cannot buy this election.
And we can tell Andrew Cuomo that New York City is not for sale.
Less than a week to bring our affordability agenda home.
Thank you for standing with us,
– Zohran
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