At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here.

The following is a transcript of introductory remarks given by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at a campaign event with Sen. Bernie Sanders at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday, May 6. The remarks have been lightly edited for clarity.

It is an honor to be here alongside Senator Bernie Sanders. I want to share what Bernie has meant to me.

It was Bernie’s campaign for the presidency in 2016 that gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics. And it was Bernie’s Queensbridge rally

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