Zohran Mamdani: “This campaign is about people like Wesley, an 1199 organizer…”

“Yes, aunties to every New Yorker in Kensington and me and Hunts Point, know this. This city is your city. And this democracy is yours, too. This campaign is about people like Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night. A New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city. It's about people like the woman I met on the BX 33 years ago, who said to me, I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live.” (05:09–05:29)

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