当地时间11月4日,佐赫兰·马姆达尼(Zohran Mamdani)赢得美国纽约市市长选举,他成为纽约市历史上最年轻的市长、首位穆斯林市长和首位印度裔市长。
The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.
For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands.
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.
My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics,
a mandate for a city we can afford, and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.
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