Thank you to the elected officials, labor and movement leaders here with us tonight. And thank you to New York’s Attorney General Tish James. For years, you have fought the good fight for New Yorkers, and now it’s our time to fight for you.

There is something special in this room tonight. It’s power. It’s the power of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers united, ready to usher in a new day. It is the power of a movement that won the battle over the soul of the Democratic Party. That put Andrew Cuomo’s vision of austerity and smallness firmly where it belongs: on a ballot line no one’s ever heard of.

It is power larger than any single person working together for a New York where dignity is delivered to all.