Ray Nagin: “Because we don't have a lot. We don't dominate business, we don't dominate a lot of things. So political power is very…”

An apology from Ray Nagin. Today, the New Orleans mayor said he was wrong yesterday to predict New Orleans would be a chocolate city once again, and to say that God wants New Orleans to be a majority African American city.

At the end of the day, people are going to look at me from -- as they've voted for other candidates, and they're going to see my opponent has an 84 percent record of voting against business. I'm a business guy, I'm a reformer. They're…

I want America to understand, the city of New Orleans took on so much water, that 80 percent of it's flooded. And we still have a tremendous amount of work to do. And we need tremendous amount of more help from the federal government.

This is the perfect race for me as far as I'm concerned. You know, the first time I ran, I was able to coalesce with white voters much quicker. I still got a significant portion of the black vote. This time it's different.