Maya Wiley rallied alongside supporters in Brooklyn a day before voters head to the polls for early voting, encouraging New Yorkers to rank her as their number one pick in their ranked-choice ballot.
"It starts tomorrow. We need progressives to show this city that progressives are about people," Wiley said flanked by supporters standing at the foot of the Prison Ship Martyr Memorial Statue in Fort Greene Park.
"People are about courage, courage is about community, and we start making it tomorrow with our feet in the streets," Wiley said.
Wiley was flanked by members of the Working Families Party and New York Communities for Change, two progressive groups that backed her candidacy in the last days of the campaign after their previously endorsed candidate, Scott Stringer, was bogged down by scandal.
Wiley, who has struggled in recent polls despite support among the left, was in the headlines Friday after she declined to answer a question about whether she would consider taking guns from the NYPD during a televised debate Thursday.
She clarified her position Friday, saying the question had not been part of the discussion around policing during the race.
"Of course I am not going to take any guns from the New York City Police Department. That was really not the point," Wiley told NY1. "My point was that we have to really talk about what the conversation has to be right now, and no one has ever floated the idea, that I'm aware of in this race, of taking guns from police officers."
Wiley said she will not be preparing on the first day of early voting Saturday, but she is expected to campaign and encourage supporters to hit the polls this weekend.