There you see him up on the screen, busy, in traffic, going from one thing to the other,

handling his business, Michael Blake, Merrill candidate for New York City.

Hey, Mr. Blake, sir, how you feeling?

Don, always good to be with you, brother.

You know, I'm tired and I'm hungry.

So that means it's the campaign trail with a few days to go, no doubt about that.

Yeah.

But it's been good rhythm.

You know, we, by all accounts, we won the debate.

When the times, the Daily News, and the Post can all agree, and you've done something right, you know, we've had more endorsements than any campaign the last few weeks.

And, you know, my job is to remind people very clearly, you do not have to go back to Cuomo. You can actually go to new generation of leadership, especially for black folk and by electing Michael Blake as your mayor.

Yeah. Michael, listen, very early on, you were on this program, I think announcing, I mean, pretty

early on that you were going to run for mayor. And now, that was in the beginning. Now it's towards, you know, we're at the almost at the end of the finish line.

And I asked you your pitch then.

And so what is your pitch now?

Has it changed?

Did you learn anything along the way?

But what is your pitch going into the final stretch?

We're continuing to remind people when it comes to affordability that I have the best vision on how to do that,

that we have to end using credit scores for housing applications while also increasing income limits for housing applications. We have to be very clear that a thousand mental

health professionals are needed instead of the NYPD when it comes to public safety crisis.

We need to have civics and

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