Zohran Mamdani Asked About Abdul El-Sayed Win: 'Have You Spoken To Him?' — Transcript

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1. 0:00Great. We're gonna go to Kelly.
2. 0:03>> Kelly.
3. 0:04>> Hi, Mr. Mayor. I wanted to ask you the
4. 0:06five ballot questions that came out of
5. 0:08your commission all passed yesterday. I
6. 0:10wanted to get uh your reaction to that.
7. 0:12And also, I wanted to ask you if you've
8. 0:15called Abdul El. Have you spoken to him?
9. 0:17And how much of this election do you
10. 0:19think was a referendum on uh President
11. 0:21Trump and what's come out of his uh
12. 0:23White House?
13. 0:25Yeah, I think this referendum was on
14. 0:28politics at large across this country.
15. 0:31This referendum was on politicians
16. 0:34telling working people that their needs
17. 0:35were unrealistic while those same
18. 0:37politicians were willing to do whatever
19. 0:39it is that the wealthiest people in the
20. 0:40country would ask them to do. And I
21. 0:42think this referendum is this this this
22. 0:44election is also a referendum on JD
23. 0:47Vance asking for two more years to
24. 0:49deliver on the things that Americans
25. 0:50cannot afford even another day of delay
26. 0:52on. And I am excited because what we now
27. 0:57have is an opportunity to ensure that we
28. 1:01recognize our job for what it is. It is
29. 1:03not a job to better manage a decline. It
30. 1:07is a job to inspire our country to
31. 1:09heights that we've never been to before
32. 1:11where the working people who built this
33. 1:13country are the ones that are then in
34. 1:15the the centerpiece of all of our
35. 1:16politics. And to your question about
36. 1:19coach, you know, it is what we saw last
37. 1:23night is New Yorkers voting for a
38. 1:25government that moves as fast as they
39. 1:28do. We saw New Yorkers vote by
40. 1:30significant margins whether to speed up
41. 1:33the process of outdoor dining and save
42. 1:35small businesses money or accelerate
43. 1:37street safety improvements or ensure
44. 1:39that nonprofits could actually have
45. 1:40their contracts paid on a better
46. 1:42timetable or even to cohhere the way in
47. 1:44which we build affordable housing and
48. 1:46strengthen our savings. And to me, what
49. 1:48is so exciting to see is that this is
50. 1:51now an opportunity for New Yorkers to
51. 1:53have a government that moves as fast as
52. 1:55they do. And I also just want to take a
53. 1:56moment to acknowledge Jimmy who's here
54. 1:58who's worked tirelessly as have a number
55. 2:01of others in our team at city hall in
56. 2:04ensuring that we met the state
57. 2:05requirement of public education around
58. 2:07these ballot proposals would not be
59. 2:09possible without that kind of work.
60. 2:10>> And Colin Abdul, did you call him on?
61. 2:12>> I I haven't spoken to him yet. Uh I'm
62. 2:15sure he is he is quite busy. I've had
63. 2:17the privilege of speaking to him in the
64. 2:19past and I have to say that his election
65. 2:22is one that means so much to so many and
66. 2:25to see
67. 2:27to see that victory in the face that all
68. 2:32that he had to
69. 2:34to to reckon with over the course of
70. 2:36that campaign whether in terms of the
71. 2:38extraordinary amount of money spent to
72. 2:40oppose him or the racism and slander
73. 2:42that he was met with on a daily basis.
74. 2:44It is incredibly exciting to see as as
75. 2:47he said last night that the good guys