With just a day to go before New York's presidential primary, Councilman Ritchie Torres of the Bronx is throwing his support behind Bernie Sanders, citing the Vermont senator's progressive agenda.

“Bernie represents a special phenomenon in progressive politics. He singularly has made inequality and poverty the focal point of the presidential election — that is his contribution to progressive politics and he’s energizing young people to an extent never seen before,” Torres said, in an interview with POLITICO New York.

Torres, who grew up in public housing in the Bronx, sent a letter to all the presidential candidates last week asking them to tour New York City Public Housing Authority buildings to see a glimpse of what decades of federal divestment has done to the city’s public housing stock.

Bernie Sanders urged caution Monday against interpreting polls showing him trailing Hillary Clinton in New York. His argument: We've been here before.

"Those are the public polls. The bottom line is, let's look at the real poll tomorrow," the Vermont senator told NBC's "Today." "Generally speaking, polling has underestimated how we do in elections."

Sanders noted that his campaign was down by as many as 25 points in Michigan before it pulled off the upset victory on March 8.

Clinton (again) asks where Sanders was during the health care fight of the 90s: "Where were you? I mean, really??"

"We *can* have political candidates and a political system that reflects our values!" #FeelTheBern #Kohndorsement

Team: we hit our goal—and then some!
Today, Bernie volunteers made over 1.7 MILLION calls into New York, beating yesterday's incredible total of 1.3 million calls, for a weekend total of over 3 MILLION CALLS in our #TakeNYbyPhone weekend!
Thank you to every one of you who got over your fear of calling for the first time, or who put in an extra hour on the phones, to help us reach this incredible milestone! Thanks also to the AWESOME volunteer teams helping it all come together: our dialer monitors (the people clicking "dial" so that you get connected to voters!), Text for Bernie volunteers who sent thousands of reminder texts, and Livechat volunteers who helped so many first-time callers not give up! Thanks to all you awesome phonebank hosts out there who opened up your homes to other volunteers to help us Take NY by Phone! And finally, thanks for each of you who posted or tweeted about this weekend of action on social media, and helped us grow our base of active callers to include so many new volunteers! That's going to help us make our voter contact machine EVEN BIGGER and more effective for next time.
What all of you did this weekend is historic. And it is absolutely going to help move the needle on Tuesday. All of you should be proud.
BUT! No one should rest easy just yet. We're still down in the polls, and the final two days will be an intense battle for every vote. We'll need everyone to keep calling as much as they can as soon as calling opens up again tomorrow at 9 am ET. And a heads up that we'll be doing another BIG push for final Get-Out-The-Vote calls on Tuesday.
But for tonight, give yourselves a high-five. You just did something amazing.
It's an honor to be with all of you in this movement.
Claire
P.S. If you're so fired up from our incredible achievement this weekend that you want to keep calling, please do! Oregon and Guam need your calls! (And yes! That does mean that these numbers above are for New York ONLY!)