Thread by @mikememoli

.@CynthiaNixon, to an enthusiastic audience at #NN18: "If Democrats are going to win this year it is not enough to just be better than Donald Trump."

Among her big applause lines is that she's running for governor to "abolish ICE once and for all."

Now, Nixon branding herself as a "Democratic socialist."

. @CynthiaNixon: "The establishment is terrified of that word, socialism. But if we learned one thing from the Obama years it’s that the Republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what we do. So we might as well give them the real thing!"

Nixon: "This year progressives want power and not concessions. And if we want change we don’t just need to elect more Democrats. We need to elect better Democrats."