New York, if we have made one thing clear over these past months, it is that we need not choose between the two.

We can be free. And we can be fed.

I know people for whom those things mean very different things.

I do not want to police speech as the mayor of New York.

I fight for working people. I fight for the very people who have been priced out of this city.

voters will resoundingly reject this in November

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported.

For too long, politicians have pretended that we’re spectators to that crisis of affordability. We’re actually actors, and we have the choice to exacerbate it, like Mayor Adams has done, or to respond to it and resolve it, like I’m doing.

We know that he would rather speak about me than speak about the legislation that he is shepherding through Washington, D.C.

Democrats spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future, and a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism.