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The DREAM campaign released the following statement following the passage of Trump’s bill for the wealthy:
“Today, the same billionaires who tried to buy NYC’s mayoral primary pulled off what may be greatest robbery of the working class in US history. And now, Bill Ackman and his MAGA crew have thrown their weight behind Eric Adams to try to buy our city in the general. It’s not enough to stop them again—we must scale up DREAM’s SuperPAC-slaying model to ensure New York leads the whole country in the fight against billionaire fascists, no matter where they are.”
More on the DREAM campaign’s accomplishments:
DREAM defined the race, aligned the field, and turned what could have been a confusing ranking strategy into a popular mass message blanketing the media, and the city itself:
- By creating a clear and memorable message around anti-Cuomo voting strategy, DREAM created a rallying cry every candidate echoed and endorsed, preventing a repeat of 2021’s battle royale and enabling Zohran’s rise
- Brad Lander’s race-shaping cross-endorsement specifically cited DREAM, as did Michael Blake’s
- 200+ media hits, including TV, radio, regular NY Times mentions, and a New Yorker profile
- Sold $30,000+ of DREAM merch that popularized the message, with clothing worn by politicians, influencers, models, and celebrities, and stickers that covered the city
- From 0 to 5000+ Instagram followers, 1800+ Twitter followers, 800+ Bluesky followers, regularly ratioed Cuomo and his crews’ tweets
- Multiple viral videos spread DREAM strategy and popularized key anti-Cuomo talking points on MTA ski resort funding, suing for gynecological records, which quickly found their way to candidates’ broadcast ads
- Cut exhausted ballots (ballots that don’t include enough candidates to affect the outcome), by nearly 100,000, or 10% of the electorate: from 140,000 (15% of voters) in 2021 to just 50,000 (5%) this year.
- Every single NYC newspaper of record printed the words “Evil Andrew” at least once.
- By the end of the race, every candidate and organization opposing Cuomo united behind the DREAM strategy and message
- With just 1/340th the funding of Cuomo’s Fix The City SuperPAC, DREAM defined the opposition against the most expensive mayoral primary in history, and won.
