(28 Jun 2025)
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New York – 28 June 2025
1. Wide of Al Sharpton welcoming Zohran Mamdani on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zohran Mamdani, (D) mayoral candidate, New York:
"And I think about Psalm 35. Which tells us weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. And it has been night for far too long in this city. It has been night for the one in four New Yorkers who live in poverty. It has been night for the 500,000 children who go to sleep hungry every single day. It has been night for a woman I met on the BX33 who told me, ‘I used to love New York. Now it’s just where I live.’ It has been night for the people who made this city what it is."
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zohran Mamdani, (D) mayoral candidate, New York:
"And what our victory showed on election night, was less a victory between one man and another. But a victory for a city that New Yorkers can afford. It was a victory of a politics that moved beyond the past and the present and into the future. A politics that every single New Yorker could see themselves and their struggles in. And as we now wait for the final results, although as Reverend Sharpton said, we already know what they will be, we have to ask ourselves a question: What does morning look like in this city? And that must be a morning for every single New Yorker."
4. Wide of stage, Sharpton raises Mamdani’s arm
STORYLINE:
Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem on Saturday as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary, telling the crowd that people struggling to pay for housing, groceries and bus fare are hungry for change.
Mamdani appeared at a National Action Network rally days after declaring victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the presumed favorite in the primary. Results will be finalized after the city’s ranked choice vote-counting resumes Tuesday.
“What our victory showed on election night was less a victory between one man and another, but a victory for a city that New Yorkers can afford,” Mamdani said at a rally attended by Black clergy and filmmaker Spike Lee
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the influential leader of the network, praised Mamdani for coming to the rally, despite reports that he lost some of the city’s most solidly Black neighborhoods in the primary.
“He could have went the other way and say, ‘It’s me against them.’ But he came this morning and he proclaimed something. And I gave him a lot of credit for that,” Sharpton said.
The winner of the Democratic primary advances to November’s election.
Mayor Eric Adams is running for re-election as an independent candidate. Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the crime-fighting Guardian Angels, is running as a Republican. Cuomo, who has conceded defeat in the primary, also could run as an independent candidate.
In Harlem, the 33-year-old state lawmaker stuck to cost-of-living theme that skyrocketed him to political stardom, weaving in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., the Bible and the city’s first Black mayor David Dinkins.
He said people question whether the city will become “a museum” of a place where working people could once thrive.
“What we have seen in the last two weeks is a hunger from New Yorkers to move beyond the days of museums and relics and make this city a living, breathing testament to what is possible.”
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AP video by Mary Conlon
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