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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is the j en Vy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

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Speaker 2: We are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest

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Speaker 2: in the building. He's running for mayor of New York City.

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Speaker 2: We have Zoran Kwame. Mam Donny nailed it.

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Speaker 3: That's that.

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Speaker 1: You gave him a great victoria right before we started.

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Speaker 3: As I was gonna say, it was off the top

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Speaker 3: of the dome.

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Speaker 2: But I did see a video before we get into politics.

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Speaker 2: I did see a video.

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Speaker 1: You were a rapper, you got a buyt.

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Speaker 3: I was an aspiring rap. Aspiring rap.

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Speaker 4: Nobody will vote for you based off what I heard.

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Speaker 3: And that's why I'm not a rapper. Nobody you see

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Speaker 3: to be to be the mayor, you have to know

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Speaker 3: what you know and know what you don't know. And

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Speaker 3: I learned quickly what I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: You really wanted to like pursue a rapper.

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Speaker 3: At one point, there was a point. There was a point,

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Speaker 3: I mean it was it was at the level. So

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Speaker 3: I was born in Kampala, Uganda, okast Africa, and there

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Speaker 3: was a point where there's a guy grow up with

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Speaker 3: he's like my brother. The two of us were rapping together,

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Speaker 3: and I was trying to sell mixtapes on a public

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Speaker 3: bus which doesn't leave until it fills every single one

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Speaker 3: of the fourteen seats. That's how much we were trying.

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Speaker 3: Wow and here I am. Because it didn't really work

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Speaker 3: out all that well.

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Speaker 2: It was kind of like yin Twins.

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Speaker 1: Was the inspiration for you and Yan Whisper.

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Speaker 3: I have to say that was an inspiration for the

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Speaker 3: song I made called Nannie, but I think you know,

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Speaker 3: for me it was It was also a way of

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Speaker 3: just telling the different stories of what I grew up with,

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Speaker 3: gotcha and and especially in Kompala. You know, I'm I'm

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Speaker 3: Uganda and of Indian origin. The guy that I grew

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Speaker 3: up with, his name is Abdul. He is Ugandan by

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Speaker 3: way of South Suddan. It's all these different cultures coming together.

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Speaker 3: We were trying to mix it all in and then

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Speaker 3: when I was here in New York City just trying

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Speaker 3: to kind of this. The song that I made was

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Speaker 3: the testament to my grandmother. Now she's a real badass.

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Speaker 3: And how so often when we talk about our elders,

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Speaker 3: we put them in a box of a nice, gentle

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Speaker 3: person who you know, is very much constrained and how

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Speaker 3: we imagine them. And I wanted to just be a

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Speaker 3: little more absurd in the celebration of a woman who

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Speaker 3: gave me a sense of the world and was a

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Speaker 3: social worker and should be a little more celebrated.

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Speaker 2: And discipline. You have discipline, you know.

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Speaker 3: A few Slash Jason video discipline, Yeah, in that video,

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Speaker 3: not by my Grandmother's.

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Speaker 4: A question in real life when you do make the

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Speaker 4: pivot to, you know, do what it is you're doing now,

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Speaker 4: do you say to yourself, I scrub all that shit

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Speaker 4: off the internet.

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Speaker 1: We got to get rid of that.

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Speaker 3: No, because I think that it's it's about being a

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Speaker 3: real person, you know, like I I enjoyed that time

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Speaker 3: in my life, and ultimately I actually see it through

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Speaker 3: line between that work and this work and that you're

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Speaker 3: trying to tell a story, and you know, when you're

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Speaker 3: trying to sell a mixtape or you're trying to get

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Speaker 3: somebody's signature to get on the ballot. At six point

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Speaker 3: of the NW in Astoria, it's the same thing where

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Speaker 3: you're asking someone can I have a moment of your

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Speaker 3: time to tell you about my story or our story.

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Speaker 3: And it also means learning how to deal with a

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Speaker 3: rejection very quickly, because once you've once you've tried to

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Speaker 3: be an artist, once you try to be a rapper,

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Speaker 3: you know what it means to be humbled. Yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was on a regular basis, right, Like you know what

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Speaker 3: it means to be the opener to the opener, to

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Speaker 3: the opener to the opener to the opener. And I

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Speaker 3: think too often in politics there's a real sense of self,

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Speaker 3: as if people should be excited to see you, when

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Speaker 3: in fact, you should be excited to see them. Right.

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Speaker 3: We shouldn't be lecturing people as much as we should

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Speaker 3: actually be listening to them. And I think that, you know,

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Speaker 4: I thank god nobody told you to do you use

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Speaker 4: any of that hip hop stuff for your campaign.

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Speaker 1: That's what they do, just how you reach certain demographics.

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Speaker 1: They're complete. Oh, I thank god didn't tell you to

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Speaker 3: Don't worry, it's not coming now.

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Speaker 2: How did you get into politics? What got you into politics?

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Speaker 2: Because some of your policies that you want to we'll discuss,

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Speaker 2: I don't see happening but I love it. So let's

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Speaker 2: start how you got into politics at first.

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Speaker 3: So the first time I knocked on doors was in

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Speaker 3: two thousand and eight for Obama. The first time I

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Speaker 3: picked up a copy of the Village Voice and I

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Speaker 3: saw that one of my favorite rappers, Hemes, had endorsed

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Speaker 3: this guy would be the first South Asian elected official

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Speaker 3: so I got on the F train, I went to

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Speaker 3: And that was the moment where I started to get

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen, I worked on my first race. That was

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Speaker 3: Eliot Team. And that just changed my life because you know,

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Speaker 3: I moved to the city when I was seven. This

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Speaker 3: is the city I fell in love with, the city

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Speaker 3: where I got my citizenship, where I got married. And

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Speaker 3: yet there was also a point where I knew I

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Speaker 3: was a New Yorker. I didn't know if I had

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Speaker 3: which showed me that there was room for all of

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Speaker 3: inspired me to understand that politics isn't just something that

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Speaker 3: an active thing. And from there I kept working on

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Speaker 3: campaigns and then in twenty twenty I ran for the

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Speaker 3: State Assembly and I represent a story in Long Island City.

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Speaker 1: Wow THEA.

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Speaker 4: They asked a question, and the question is simple, can

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Speaker 4: an AOC back socialist upset Andrew Cuomo in the New

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Speaker 1: I want you, I want you to answer that question.

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Speaker 3: There's a short answer, which is yes, okay, and there's

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Speaker 3: a longer answer, which is the fact that New Yorkers

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Speaker 3: are hungry for a different kind of politics. We have

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Speaker 3: seen the same politicians with the same ideas lead us

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Speaker 3: to the same results for decades and this is in

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Speaker 3: many ways a question of whether we want to go

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Speaker 3: to the future, and our campaign is one that sees

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Speaker 3: this city under attack in two ways. An affordability crisis

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Speaker 3: on the inside, where the most expensive city in the

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Speaker 3: United States of America one in for New Yorkers are

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Speaker 3: And then we're under attack from the outside from a

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Speaker 3: Trump administration that is hell bent on going after not

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Speaker 3: only New Yorkers, but frankly democratic cities across the country

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Speaker 3: like we're seeing in Los Angeles right now. And I

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Speaker 3: am going head to head with Andrew Cuomo, a former

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Speaker 3: pack is funded in large part by the same billionaires

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Speaker 3: who put Donald Trump back in the White House. That's

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Speaker 3: not the kind of person who can stand up to

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Speaker 3: same time. And that's why I believe that that I

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Speaker 2: That, I wanted to ask, you know, some of the

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Speaker 2: policies that you stand on is a free bus service

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Speaker 2: in New York City? Yes, sir, could that actually work?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? You know? So, I grew up in Morningside Heights.

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Speaker 3: I would take the one train. We set the nine

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Speaker 3: won the first of its kind fair free bus pilot.

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Speaker 3: We made one bus route free in every borough of

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Speaker 3: down by thirty eight point nine percent, and of the

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Speaker 3: seeing that eleven percent of the new riders they were

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Speaker 3: a year. Now that sounds significant, which it is, but

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Speaker 3: that in the context of a city budget that's about

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Speaker 3: a one hundred and thirteen billion dollars a year, state

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Speaker 3: There is money, The question is what we spend it on.

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Speaker 3: And what I've proposed is that we raise ten billion

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Speaker 3: dollars to pay for our entire year economic agenda and

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Speaker 3: start to Trump proof our city because we know he'll

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Speaker 3: use federal funding as leverage over this city, and we

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Speaker 3: will do so in two key ways. The first is

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Speaker 3: to match the state's top corporate tax rate to that

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Speaker 3: of New Jersey. We are at seven point twenty five percent,

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Speaker 3: they're at eleven point five percent. Corporations can pay it

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Speaker 3: beauty of it is that it doesn't just apply to

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Speaker 3: corporations headquartered in New York City, because when you say this,

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Speaker 3: people will say, well, they're going to go to Florida.

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Speaker 3: Wherever you are headquartered, as long as you do business

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Speaker 3: in the state of New York, you are taxable for

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Speaker 3: that corporate tax. We're talking about corporations that are making

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Speaker 3: millions of dollars, not in revenue but in profit. And

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Speaker 3: the second is taxing the top one percent of New Yorkers.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about people who make a million dollars a

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Speaker 3: year more, taxing them just by flat two percent tax increase.

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Speaker 3: And I know if fifty cent is listening, he's not

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Speaker 3: going to be happy about this. Intense to not like

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Speaker 3: this tax policy, but I want to be very clear,

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Speaker 3: this is about twenty thousand dollars a year. It's a

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Speaker 4: And when those calls come in, you know, and people

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Speaker 1: So the tined he they were trained.

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Speaker 3: And my point here is that that serves no one.

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Speaker 3: So why don't we actually look at what works elsewhere

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Speaker 1: Oh maybe we step on our own point.

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Speaker 4: If they were trained, they were trained when you say

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Speaker 3: These police officers were given the training that right now

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Speaker 1: So you know, they should do they should.

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Speaker 4: Police officers should be having their own mental health evaluations

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Speaker 3: It's important and I think that's also part of why

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Speaker 2: I want to ask about congestion pricing as well. You know,

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Speaker 3: So I believe that the one thing New Yorkers hate

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Speaker 2: How is it affecting businesses in New York City though?

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Speaker 4: You know, I want to ask you, I want you.

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't want you to wrap up it.

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Speaker 3: Look, I know you don't like the reps.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying that the way you would approach your

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Speaker 3: This is where I lose the election right here.

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Speaker 4: How would you define being a democratic socialist to just

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Speaker 3: wealth for all people in this country, for all of

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Speaker 3: God's children, and ultimately to me, it's about dignity for

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Speaker 3: each person. You know, the person who gave me this

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Speaker 3: language of calling myself a democratic socialist is Bernie Sanders

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Speaker 3: when he ran in twenty sixteen and his relentless focus

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Speaker 3: on income inequality. It taught me that things could be

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Speaker 3: better than they were. So often, when you're voting, it

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Speaker 3: feels like you're voting between somebody who wants to wipe

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Speaker 3: you off the face of the earth and someone else

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Speaker 3: who wants to tell you to celebrate the crumbs that

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Speaker 3: can't feed your neighbors, and to know that it could

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Speaker 3: be more, that you could be voting for something that

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Speaker 3: has inspired me. And I think that you know, as

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Speaker 3: a Muslim democratic socialist, I am used to bad pr

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Speaker 3: and having to explain what all of these things mean.

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Speaker 3: And what I've found, though, is when you actually get

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Speaker 3: into a conversation, a lot of this is common sense.

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Speaker 3: Right If I believe that every New Yorker should be

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Speaker 3: able to live a dignified life, and that it's city

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Speaker 3: government's job to ensure that New Yorkers will agree with

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Speaker 3: me when I bring up example of public education free so.

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Speaker 1: Free education, free healthcare, what else I mean?

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Speaker 3: Anything that's necessary rights. It's like when people whatever you

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Speaker 3: need to live in this city that should not be

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Speaker 3: something you can be priced out of. And we agree

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Speaker 3: with that when it comes to school, we agree with

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Speaker 3: that with libraries, with sanitation, with the fire department. But

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Speaker 3: there are certain things we've picked and chosen and said,

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Speaker 3: you know what, you don't need that for housing. You

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Speaker 3: know what, you don't need that for food, And I

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Speaker 3: think that we can't let the market determine who gets

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Speaker 3: to live that dignified life. This is not to say

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Speaker 3: that it's city government's job to deal with everything, but

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Speaker 3: for that which is necessary, we have to ensure that

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Speaker 3: we are doing our part. And that's why I have

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Speaker 3: said I'm going to freeze the rent for more than

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Speaker 3: two million rent stabilized tenants, because that's the mayor's power.

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Speaker 3: The last mayor did that three times. This mayor raised

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Speaker 3: the rent nine percent. He wants to raise it again

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Speaker 3: up to eight percent. We have these tools. It's just

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Speaker 3: a question of do we want to do this, And

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Speaker 3: I know why politicians don't because there's a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm the candidate wanting to freeze the rent.

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Speaker 3: Cuomo was the can did it run to raise the rent.

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Speaker 3: That's why the landlords of those same units just gave

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Speaker 3: Cuomo two and a half million dollars the same landlords

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Speaker 3: to say they don't have enough money to be able

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Speaker 3: to freeze the rent. Just found two and a half

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Speaker 3: million to give it to him, the single largest check

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Speaker 3: in this entire race. But it helps let people know

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Speaker 3: that's what's on the ballot. It's straightforward. It's do you

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Speaker 3: want your rent to be the same or do you wanted.

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Speaker 1: To raise I saw your rent was twenty three hundred

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Speaker 1: a month.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, twenty three hundred for one bedroom in a

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Speaker 3: storia Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was five hundred square feet.

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Speaker 3: It's not too much more than that. Let me tell you.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: You know it's interesting, right because Democrats have created all

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Speaker 4: his new politically correct language for everything, jender, sexuality, pregnant women.

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Speaker 4: How come y'all haven't found a better way to discuss socialism?

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Speaker 4: Why is socialism a dirty word when essentially all you

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Speaker 4: want to do is take care of people?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it should be. I think it's actually

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Speaker 3: a word that when you break down its meaning like

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Speaker 3: you just have done. Is one that many Americans agree with,

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Speaker 3: and we've seen that that despite all the attempts, Bernie

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Speaker 3: Sanders continues to be one of the most popular politicians

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Speaker 3: in America, Congressman Ocostio Cortes similarly, and they have both

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Speaker 3: defined themselves in that same language. And I think it's that, But.

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Speaker 4: I think it's because they tell more so nowadays, instead

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Speaker 4: of just leaning on the word socialism, they just tell

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Speaker 4: people you should have free healthcare, you should have a

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Speaker 4: free education, you should be able to make a livable wage.

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Speaker 4: You know, they should increase the minimum wage. Like those

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Speaker 4: are just simple concepts that are all so socialism. Well,

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Speaker 4: for some reason, y'all still find yourselves tripping up over

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Speaker 4: that word or letting the other side use to that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I think it's it's because there

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Speaker 3: are a lot of people making a lot of money

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Speaker 3: in this moment who would want Americans to think that

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Speaker 3: that's the only way life can be. And I don't

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Speaker 3: hide this, you know, it's it's it's how I see

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Speaker 3: the world. It's the world that I want is one

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Speaker 3: of dignity. And it's funny. There's this one guy who

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Speaker 3: comments under almost every one of my tweets and he's like,

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Speaker 3: he's a socialist. I'm like, yeah, it's in my bio,

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Speaker 3: you know, this is this is who I am, And

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's about being honest with New Yorkers

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Speaker 3: because I've found, you know, Mayor Koch said this that

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Speaker 3: if you agree with me on nine out of twelve issues,

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Speaker 3: vote for me twelve out of twelve ce a psychiatrist,

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Speaker 3: And I found that in New Yorker's an ability to say, look,

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Speaker 3: maybe I wouldn't call myself the same word, but I

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Speaker 3: want the same things. And ultimately, you have to have

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Speaker 3: a coalition that asks people of just one thing. We

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Speaker 3: need to make the city affordable. We can have disagreement,

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Speaker 3: we can have tension, but we have to have agreement

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Speaker 3: on that one thing so that we can build a

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Speaker 3: coalition that looks like the City of New York.

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Speaker 4: Now, sorry, but you want to please Why I'm in

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Speaker 4: the polls like you just came out of nowhere, right.

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Speaker 1: Why do you.

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Speaker 4: Think the young people are rying with you?

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's it's because people are hungry.

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Speaker 2: Forget they didn't throw your name in the hat at first.

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Speaker 3: It was just look, let me tell you I was.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting in a coffee shop in a Storia.

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Speaker 3: This is right before we launched the campaign. If somebody

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Speaker 3: in politics showed me a poll. I was looking at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the poll and they were like, no, no,

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Speaker 3: keep looking, keep looking. And then I was there at

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Speaker 3: one percent.

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Speaker 1: They were like, that's what you said, right, How did

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Speaker 1: you make the pool where?

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Speaker 2: Pause?

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Speaker 3: You know? I think, I think. I think. I think

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Speaker 3: just by being consistent. You know, from the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the race, from October twenty third, the first day, I

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Speaker 3: said this was a campaign about affordability. I said, this

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Speaker 3: was a campaign about New Yorkers who have built this city,

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Speaker 3: who are being pushed out of this city. And I

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Speaker 3: said that I was going to do three things. I

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Speaker 3: was going to freeze the rent. I was going to

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Speaker 3: make the slowest busses in America fast and free. I

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Speaker 3: was going to deliver universal childcare. And it got to

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Speaker 3: the point where I can go to a rally and

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Speaker 3: I can say I'm going to freeze the and the

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Speaker 3: crowd will say rent buses, fast and free, universal childcare.

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Speaker 3: People know, and I think for too long politics has

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Speaker 3: become about a person as opposed to a platform, and

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Speaker 3: New Yorkers see themselves in that. And you know, growing

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Speaker 3: up in this city, so many of the people that

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Speaker 3: have helped to raise me that I've grown up with.

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Speaker 3: They haven't always seen themselves in our politics. You know,

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Speaker 3: they haven't voted in a lot of these elections. The

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Speaker 3: last mayoral primary, twenty six percent of Democrats voted, and

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Speaker 3: most New Yorkers and you ask them when's the election,

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Speaker 3: they'll tell you it's in November, not in June. Most

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Speaker 3: people don't know about the importance of the primary. But

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Speaker 3: I've been getting text messages from people that I've known

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Speaker 3: for years and people that I've just met, just screenshots

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Speaker 3: of voter registration that I'm going to vote for the

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Speaker 3: first time. And that's meant the world to me. Because

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Speaker 3: if we really want to protect our democracy, one of

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Speaker 3: the best ways of doing so is that people see

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Speaker 3: themselves in it. People see themselves as participants. You can't

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Speaker 3: protect it at an intellectual level. You have to protect

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Speaker 3: it an everyday level. And ultimately, going back to your

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Speaker 3: question about democratic socialism, it's about extending that democracy from

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Speaker 3: the ballot box to the rest of our lives. If

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Speaker 3: you get to choose your own leaders, why shouldn't you

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Speaker 3: be able to choose the economic conditions that you're living.

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Speaker 3: Why shouldn't you be able to ensure you have that dignity.

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Speaker 3: And I think that what's so exciting is, as you said,

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Speaker 3: a lot of this is powered by young people. You know,

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Speaker 3: young people who so often political analysts will say, don't

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Speaker 3: worry about them, they don't vote at the same rates,

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Speaker 3: they don't come out, And it's been so exciting to

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Speaker 3: see those same young people be part of the thirty

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Speaker 3: four thousand volunteers we have. You know, it took us

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Speaker 3: months to knock one hundred and fifty thousand doors in

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Speaker 3: this city. Last week we knocked that in seven days alone.

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Speaker 3: That's the level of momentum we're at, where people are

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Speaker 3: just going all across the city. And my mother is

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Speaker 3: one of these canvassers. She has her weekly canvassing shift

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Speaker 3: on Sunday. She's paired up with a twenty five year

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Speaker 3: old who she complains, walks too fast. They go up

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Speaker 3: six floor walk up, and she goes through ten consecutive knotdoors,

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Speaker 3: not homes, And then when she finally meets a voter

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Speaker 3: and they say they're going to vote for me, she says,

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Speaker 3: that's my son. And it's that sense of everyone is

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Speaker 3: a part of she don't She's like, you know, I

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Speaker 3: have my concerns as well.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you, you know, if you were the

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Speaker 2: mayor and you see what's going on in LA, how

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Speaker 2: would you handle that problem? If there was protesters, they

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Speaker 2: were you know, breaking stuff, looting, smashing police cars, vandalizing things.

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Speaker 2: Of course Trump sending the troops, how would you handle

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Speaker 2: that if you were mayor of New York City and

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Speaker 2: that actually happened here.

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Speaker 3: I think, first and foremost you call it what it is.

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Speaker 3: It's authoritarianism. This is is the Trump administration looking to

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Speaker 3: arrest enough migrants that they can say they've fulfilled their

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Speaker 3: campaign promise of building the single largest deportation force in

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Speaker 3: American history. And too often we think about it as

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Speaker 3: just an attack on immigrants. It's an attack on the

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Speaker 3: fabric of this country. And it's not just in LA.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we have New Yorkers who have been arrested

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Speaker 3: and detained today. You know, a few days ago marked

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Speaker 3: three months since sa Palestinian New York named Mahamud Khalil

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Speaker 3: was arrested in his apartment building lobby, taken away from

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Speaker 3: his pregnant wife nor and has since been in an

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Speaker 3: ice attention facility in Louisiana. It wasn't able to even

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Speaker 3: witness the birth of his first child, Dean. And we

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Speaker 3: have another New York City public high school student named Dylan,

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Speaker 3: who was snatched at a regular check in at Federal Plaza.

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Speaker 3: Is now hundreds of miles away from his mother and

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Speaker 3: his two siblings. And this is personal for me because

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Speaker 3: I got my citizenship just blocks from where those arrests

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Speaker 3: are happening. Those blocks used to be my favorite part

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Speaker 3: of New York Cities, where I got my citizenhip, where

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Speaker 3: I got married, and those are now the same blocks

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Speaker 3: where when I took my father for his immigration interview

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Speaker 3: this year, I hugged him so tight because I didn't

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Speaker 3: know if I was going to see him in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: There are too many New Yorkers who are feeling that,

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Speaker 3: and so I think you call this what it is.

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Speaker 3: You also make clear that Trump is reversing historical precedent

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Speaker 3: in that calling the National Guard is typically something a

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Speaker 3: governor requests of the president. It's not something a president

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Speaker 3: puts on a governor. And Kathy Hochel is someone who,

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Speaker 3: as the governor of our state, has been able to

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Speaker 3: fight Donald Trump and defend a lot of his potential

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Speaker 3: attacks on this state. One of The first things I

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Speaker 3: would do is work with her to make it clear

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Speaker 3: that this this has no room in our city and

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Speaker 3: our police force should not be assisting ICE in what

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Speaker 3: they are conducting. You know, we recently saw arrests where

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Speaker 3: the NYPD was then arresting a pastor and other New

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Speaker 3: Yorkers who were observing ICE arresting migrants coming in for

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Speaker 3: their check ins. We don't need to be a complices

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Speaker 3: to authoritarianism. We need to show that there's another way

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Speaker 3: of running this city, in this country. And that's who

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to be.

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Speaker 1: Could you explain to people why federal overreaches dangerous?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's so funny to see Republicans, for

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Speaker 3: whom so long their rallying cry has been states' rights,

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Speaker 3: and now here they are they don't have a concern

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Speaker 3: for that at all. It's the same way that they

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Speaker 3: used to care about free speech. That's gone as well. Ultimately,

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Speaker 3: these are principles they only hold when are convenient to them.

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Speaker 3: And what's so dangerous about this is that we have

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Speaker 3: a clear delineation of what is a federal responsibility what

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Speaker 3: is a state responsibility. But Donald Trump wants to make

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Speaker 3: every responsibility his He wants to run a country in

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Speaker 3: a manner that is more befitting of an authoritarian state.

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Speaker 3: And I think what's so concerning is he's looking at

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Speaker 3: the example of someone like Naib Bukele and saying that

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Speaker 3: this style of leadership, of having mass prisons where we

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Speaker 3: send so many people who we allege our criminals no

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Speaker 3: matter whether we can find it or not, that's what

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Speaker 3: he wants to bring to this country. And I think

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Speaker 3: what we need are Democrats who are willing to stand

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Speaker 3: up and fight that. You know, we have a mayor

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Speaker 3: right now who has wanted to fear monger around sanctuary

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Speaker 3: city policy. This is a policy we've had in this

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Speaker 3: city for decades. It's a policy that's been defended by

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Speaker 3: Republicans and Democrats alike. It allows for the city to

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Speaker 3: work with the federal government if someone is convicted on

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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy serious crimes. What it says, however,

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Speaker 3: is outside of those there should not be that collaboration.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I'm sure you know you've heard of Kilmar,

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Speaker 3: the man in Maryland who was taken to El Salvador.

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Speaker 3: If the city he was arrested in by ice had

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Speaker 3: sanctuary city laws, he would not have been able to

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Speaker 3: be picked up. That's what we're preventing from happening. And

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Speaker 3: still with what we have in place, because we have

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Speaker 3: a mayor who doesn't want to enforce it, because we

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Speaker 3: have a mayor who wants to collaborate, still we see

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Speaker 3: New Yorkers being picked up.

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Speaker 4: That's a question, right, Why is Donald Trump the Democrats boogeyman?

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Speaker 4: Because none of you' all are running against Trump. And

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Speaker 4: to me, the biggest hurdle to the Democratic Party is

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Speaker 4: the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 1: An action of the Democrat Ccratic.

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Speaker 4: Party over all of these years is the biggest hurdle

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Speaker 4: for the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't disagree with you. That's part of my

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Speaker 3: critique of Andrew Cuomo is that he's the very kind

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Speaker 3: of leadership that helped give rise to Donald Trump. You know,

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Speaker 3: before Donald Trump was the president of this country, before

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Speaker 3: he was a reality TV show host, he was a

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Speaker 3: real estate developer in New York City, and he was

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Speaker 3: someone who both parties had room for and time for.

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Speaker 3: And I think that our ability to accommodate the very

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Speaker 3: kind of real estate developers that have broken law after

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Speaker 3: law after law is also part of what has given

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Speaker 3: rise to an era of politics with no accountability. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo had a video of Donald Trump playing at

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Speaker 3: his own bachelor party. Like, that's the level in which

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Speaker 3: all of this is a mesh together. And I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to chart a new course with this campaign, alongside thousands

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Speaker 3: of New Yorkers for a politics that is clearly distinct

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Speaker 3: from that of Donald Trump. And I think when New

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Speaker 3: Yorkers are shocked at Donald Trump's record of cutting medicaid,

725
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Speaker 3: of trying to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from

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Speaker 3: the MTA, of giving tax breaks to billionaires, of hounding

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Speaker 3: the many women who have credibly come forward to accuse him,

728
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Speaker 3: those are the same things you could say about Andrew Cuomo.

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Speaker 3: We don't need a reflection of that in New York City.

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Speaker 3: We need someone who is the opposite of that, and

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Speaker 3: as a progressive Muslim immigrant who's willing to fight for

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Speaker 3: the things I believe in. That's what That's what makes

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Speaker 3: me donald Trump's worst night Mayor.

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Speaker 4: But I saw you say that in the debate. You

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Speaker 4: know you would be Trump's worst nightmare. Well, once again,

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Speaker 4: why should that matter to anybody voting for you?

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Speaker 1: Now? Cut running against Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: No, you, but but you are running against the authoritarianism

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Speaker 3: that he's bringing to this city.

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Speaker 1: Authoritarian.

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Speaker 3: No. I think that there's too many commonalities between him

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Speaker 3: and Donald Trump's record. And my point is that you

743
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Speaker 3: don't want to have a mayor who has to pick

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Speaker 3: up a phone call from someone who cut a two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand dollars check to both him and

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump. You want to have a mayor who's willing

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Speaker 3: to fight for the city and have that that be

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Speaker 3: the thing that he's ultimately responsible for. And I think

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Speaker 3: to your point, we also have to be honest about

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Speaker 3: how we lost this presidential election. You know, New York

751
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Speaker 3: is the state that had the largest swing in the

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Speaker 3: country towards Donald Trump eleven and a half points. And

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Speaker 3: it happened far from the caricature of Trump voters. It

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Speaker 3: happened in the hearts of immigrant New York City. I

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Speaker 3: went to Fordham Road in the Bronx, I went to

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Speaker 3: Hillside Avenue in Queens and when I asked New Yorkers there,

757
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Speaker 3: almost all of whom were Democrats. Who did you vote

758
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Speaker 3: for and why? Many told me they didn't vote. Many

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Speaker 3: told me they voted for Trump, and they told me

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Speaker 3: they voted for him because they remembered having more money

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Speaker 3: in their pocket four years ago for their rent, for

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Speaker 3: their childcare, for their groceries, even for their metroplogan. And

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Speaker 3: as insincere and ridiculous and horrific as we know Trump's

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Speaker 3: policies to be, that is how people felt. Those are

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Speaker 3: the decisions that they made. And when I asked these

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Speaker 3: same New Yorkers what would it take to bring you

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Speaker 3: back to the Democratic Party, they said, a relentless focus

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Speaker 3: on an economic agenda. I said, what would you say

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Speaker 3: to a candidate running to freeze the rent, make buses

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Speaker 3: fast and free deliver universal child care, that I vote

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Speaker 3: for him. And that's when I introduced myself. And that's

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Speaker 3: my point here, is that there are some Democrats like

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Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo, who think that we we went too far

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Speaker 3: left in how we ran a campaign. And my point

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Speaker 3: is that we actually betrayed working class voters a long

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Speaker 3: time ago, and it's time to own up to that

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Speaker 3: and finally fulfill the promises that were made decades ago.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that's interesting, right, because you know, you say,

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Speaker 4: Cuomo and Trump have so many similarities, But Cuomo has

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Speaker 4: been a career Democrat, and that's why I feel like

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Speaker 4: anybody who is going to be the future of the

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Speaker 4: Democratic Party, you do have to throw that old regime

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Speaker 4: under the bus, because.

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Speaker 3: It's not just that bus is going to be free.

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Speaker 1: Sure, but it's not just Cuomo in the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of old leadership.

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Speaker 4: List, the Chuck Schumers, it's the Bidens. You gotta throw

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Speaker 4: all of that under the bus and run it over.

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Speaker 4: And people have to hear you say that because I

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Speaker 4: keep hearing y'all. You know, you keep talking about Trump, Trump, Trump,

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Speaker 4: h Trump, but your party has been just as ineffective

792
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Speaker 4: and just as corrupt in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 3: Trust me, I have I hear you because I've been

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Speaker 3: critical about the style of leadership that gave rise to

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump. He is also a style of leadership within

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Speaker 3: the Democratic Party. And I think for too long it's

797
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Speaker 3: been a party that has valued insider politics, pay your dues,

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Speaker 3: the words and advice of consultants, over the people that

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Speaker 3: are Democrats themselves. And I do think it's time for

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Speaker 3: a new generation of leadership. You know, Cuomo would be

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Speaker 3: the oldest mayor elected in New York City. I would

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Speaker 3: represent a completely new generation. And I think it's important

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Speaker 3: for that because it's not just about age, it's not

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Speaker 3: just about vision. It's also about what has your record

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Speaker 3: been and who have you been fighting for? And is

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Speaker 3: that distinct enough from what got us here?

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Speaker 1: Got a couple more questions.

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Speaker 4: You said, as the Blasio was the best mayor in

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Speaker 4: your lifetime for New York, and you gave three reasons.

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Speaker 4: You said, because he ended stopping for risks. Quote, yeah,

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Speaker 4: he ran on endian, stopping for risk, taxing the rich,

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Speaker 4: and funding universal pre k. You said he got a

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Speaker 4: lot of that done. How much of it did he

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Speaker 4: get done?

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Speaker 3: Universal pre k? I think is one of the most

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Speaker 3: shining examples of what city government can do right. This

817
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Speaker 3: is something that took tens of thousands of dollars off

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Speaker 3: New York family's backs and made it easier to raise

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Speaker 3: a family here. You know, I'm tired of hearing New

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Speaker 3: Yorkers tell me that they're going to settle down, and

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Speaker 3: I know that the next sentence is going to include

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Speaker 3: the words long Island of the suburbs, because they just

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Speaker 3: can't make it work in the five boroughs. Part of

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Speaker 3: making it work is making it easier to have childcare.

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Speaker 3: You know today the average cost of childcare is twenty

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Speaker 3: five thousand dollars a year. That's more money than it

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Speaker 3: costs to send that same kid to Cune eighteen years later. Those,

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Speaker 3: I think are accomplishments.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: It's not to say that there is no critique of

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Speaker 3: that time in office. I mean, I'm somebody who was

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Speaker 3: on a fifteen day hunger strike alongside thousands of working

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Speaker 3: class taxi drivers fighting that same administration for debt relief,

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Speaker 3: and we were able to come to an agreement where

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Speaker 3: we won four hundred and fifty million dollars in debt

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Speaker 3: relief for those taxi drivers. And ultimately, I say this though,

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Speaker 3: because we have seen what's possible if we have someone

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Speaker 3: focused on delivering it. And to me that the greatest

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Speaker 3: mayor in New York City history is Firell LaGuardia, because

840
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Speaker 3: he was someone who transformed our sense of the possible,

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Speaker 3: and he put working people at the heart of his politics,

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Speaker 3: and he did so while also confronting this rise in

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Speaker 3: anti immigrant hate all at the same time. And I

844
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Speaker 3: think we need a mayor who has that ability to

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Speaker 3: fight multiple crises at the same time and show what

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Speaker 3: it means to be a New Yorker.

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Speaker 4: You said, as your elected mayor, Israel wouldn't let you in,

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Speaker 4: and you mentioned some legislation, but would that legislation apply

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Speaker 4: to you if you're actually met.

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Speaker 3: We've seen elected officials, even congress people of this country

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Speaker 3: not be allowed into the state of Israel. And my

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Speaker 3: point was, I've been asked this question many times, and

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Speaker 3: I've said directly that I believe one need not visit

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Speaker 3: Israel to stand up for Jewish new Yorkers. What I

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Speaker 3: need to do is to meet Jewish New Yorkers at

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Speaker 3: their synagogues, at their temples, at their homes, subway platforms, parks,

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Speaker 3: wherever they may be, to hear their concerns, and actually

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Speaker 3: deliver on those concerns. And then, when I have been

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Speaker 3: asked about this, what I've also said is that even

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Speaker 3: if I was going to make that trip, there is

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Speaker 3: legislation that does not allow anyone who supports a nonviolent

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Speaker 3: movement calling for the compliance of the Israeli government with

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Speaker 3: international law to be allowed into that state. And I

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Speaker 3: say that to say that there has to be a

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Speaker 3: greater recognition of what is going on. And the fact is,

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Speaker 3: for me, my politics come back from the politics of

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Speaker 3: the universal. I believe that freedom and justice and safety, liberty,

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Speaker 3: these things have to apply to everyone for them to

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Speaker 3: be meaningful, and that also includes Palestinians.

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Speaker 4: Why does it also seem like elected officials care about

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Speaker 4: what's going on in other countries more than they care

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Speaker 4: about what's happening here in America? Because you know, you, you

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Speaker 4: realize it's hard to think about starving kids somewhere else

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Speaker 4: when your kids is starving.

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Speaker 3: Right, My focus is right here in New York City.

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Speaker 3: This is a question that's been asked of me time

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Speaker 3: and time again, and ultimately, I think it's actually a

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Speaker 3: question that, as you're saying, is not actually in line

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Speaker 3: with the top concerns of New Yorkers, not even in

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Speaker 3: line with the top concerns of Jewish New Yorkers. You know,

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Speaker 3: when you see in a poll, what are those top concerns?

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Speaker 3: The number one is affordable. After that, it's childcare, it's

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Speaker 3: elder carets, discrimination. These are all New York City issues,

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Speaker 3: and I think that we need to have a mayor

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Speaker 3: who is focused on New York City. And that's why

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Speaker 3: when I was asked in the debate, where is your

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Speaker 3: first trip abroad going to be I said, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to be here in New York City. And then I

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Speaker 3: was asked, followed up, are you going to go to Israel?

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Speaker 3: And I said, one need not go to Israel to

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Speaker 3: stand up for Jewish New Yorkers. And then I was asked,

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Speaker 3: you know, it just continues to continues to continues. But

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Speaker 3: for me, the focus has to be the Five Boroughs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you are running to be the mayor of

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Speaker 3: this city. This is a city that is losing hundreds

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Speaker 3: of thousands of people in the last few years alone

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Speaker 3: because they can't afford it. They're going to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut,

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Speaker 3: anywhere their dollar can go a little further. And we

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Speaker 3: know that. You know, as the saying goes, when white

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Speaker 3: America catches a cold, Black America catches pneumonia, that inequality

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Speaker 3: is compounded. For Black New Yorkers. We lost two hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand Black New Yorkers in two decades, about nine percent

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Speaker 3: of the city's population of Black New Yorkers. From twenty

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Speaker 3: ten to twenty nineteen, nearly twenty percent of black children

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Speaker 3: and teenagers had to leave this city. And that is

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Speaker 3: a crisis that has to be focused on that would

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Speaker 3: be that would be at the heart of what my

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Speaker 3: administration would do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't understand why conversations about affordability, free healthcare,

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Speaker 4: making buses, free freezing the rent on rent, stabilized apartments.

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Speaker 1: Why is that considered far left?

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Speaker 3: Come on, I'm just saying why it's common.

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Speaker 4: See, I can't y'all message that better. Like I think

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Speaker 4: you got to get rid of that word socialism. You know,

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Speaker 4: my man killer Mike used to tell Bernie Sanders to

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Speaker 4: use the term compassionate capitalism, or maybe just talk about

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Speaker 4: what it is you want to do constantly instead of

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Speaker 4: getting caught up in those labels.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's both important to tell people

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Speaker 3: where this belief comes from. But what I always foreground

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Speaker 3: is what this belief will mean for someone. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's people want to know, how are you going

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Speaker 3: to help them in their life, in their struggle. The

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Speaker 3: reason we focus this entire campaign on affordability is that's

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Speaker 3: what New Yorker's told us. When you ask them what

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Speaker 3: are you struggling with, They'll tell you rent, they'll tell

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Speaker 3: you childcare, They'll even tell you public transit. Because I

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Speaker 3: know to many people two ninety doesn't feel like a lot.

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Speaker 3: One in five New Yorkers cannot afford a Metro card.

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Speaker 3: That's the state of inequality in this city. While income

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Speaker 3: inequality has declined in the country, it's in increased in

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Speaker 3: New York City. This is the wealthiest city in the

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Speaker 3: wealthiest country in the history of the world. And so

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Speaker 3: to what you're saying, these are common sense policies. And

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Speaker 3: also when they're polled, they even sometimes have supportive majority

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Speaker 3: of Republicans because they speak to what people are actually

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Speaker 3: going through.

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Speaker 4: It's it all people wanted some more money in their

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Speaker 4: pocket and they want to feel safe.

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Speaker 1: Look, that's it.

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Speaker 2: Well, if they want to support you, how can they

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Speaker 2: go out and support you?

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Speaker 3: Well, what I would tell them has come to Zoran

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Speaker 3: for NYC dot com. Don't donate to us. We've already

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Speaker 3: raised the maximum we can spend in this campaign. But

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Speaker 3: do give us something more valuable, which is your time.

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Speaker 3: We're building a team of thirty four thousand people New

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Speaker 3: Yorkers from all walks of life, knocking on doors, talking

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Speaker 3: to their neighbors. Come on out canvas. It would be

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Speaker 3: a joy to have you. And I would also say

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Speaker 3: that the three of you want to come Canvas. We'd

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Speaker 3: love to have you as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Early residents in New Jersey, oh come.

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Speaker 3: So look, you know, just bring that corporate tax rate.

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Speaker 3: Bring that corporate tax right over from New Jersey June

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Speaker 3: twenty fourth. Early voting starts June fourteenth, and we're confident

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Speaker 3: we go in this, but only with the help of

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Speaker 3: New Yorkers.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Joe, ron Kwalm and Mama Donny.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate. We're all right, Zoran Kwame, Mam Donnie.

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Speaker 1: There we go.

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Speaker 3: Goodness, get the polls up.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up

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Speaker 2: in the morning.

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Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.