Zohran Mamdani: “1 in 4 New Yorkers living in poverty.”

“It was up to us to deliver for the working people he left behind. Over the eight months of the primary, we told New Yorkers how we intended to address that very same affordability … 1 in 4 New Yorkers living in poverty. … became die hard canvassers. Community formed. Our city got to know each other and itself. This, my friends, was your movement, and it always will be.” (11:06–11:21)

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