'The future is in our hands': Mayor-elect Mamdani delivers victory speech
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on stage at his election night watch party in Brooklyn. Credit: Alejandra Villa Loarca
In thanking his supporters at the Brooklyn Paramount around 11:15 p.m., Mamdani said together they “toppled a political dynasty.”
"For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well connected that the power does not belong in their hands," Mamdani said.
"Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery-bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns, these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands.”
Regarding his opponent, Mamdani said he wished his opponent former Gov. Andrew Cuomo "only the best in private life" before adding, "Let tonight be the final time I utter his name as we turn the page on the politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few."
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