FOX: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing.
A former police captain, Adams would be the city’s second Black mayor if elected.
He triumphed over a large field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting.
Adams’ closest vanquished rivals included former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia, who campaigned as a technocrat and proven problem-solver, and former City Hall legal advisor Maya Wiley, who had progressive support including an endorsement from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Andrew Yang, the 2020 presidential candidate known for his proposed universal basic income, was an early favorite but faded in the race.
Voting in the primary ended June 22. Early returns showed Adams in the lead, but New Yorkers had to wait for tens of thousands of absentee ballots to be counted and for rounds of tabulations done under the new ranked choice system. more here
Good news for NYC. If he ends up running against republican Sliwa it will be the best options available, for once.
New York City Democrat primary for mayor?
I’m sorry. I don’t care. They FUBAR’d the primary and NYC mayoral politics have been notoriously corrupt since Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall back in the 1800s.
There would have been something almost poetic about a former sanitation commissioner seated at the NYC mayor’s desk.
Former police captain? He may turn out to be less bad that other Dems.
“but had to wait for tens of thousands of absentee ballots to be counted”
Why does that sound familiar?
Maya Wiley, another communist endorsed by AOC failed.
She is toxic, even for her own party.
So, if you get to be the mayor in NYC, finally you get your second amendment rights respected. Got it.
Adams was a complete empty suit as a cop and got worse as he rose to the rank of Captain, a lil help from affirmative BLACKtion got him those promotions. The civil service board bumped up grades of blacks and guess what happened to “whiteys” grades. A very racist individual that would piss and moan his entire career
Damn, my money was on Stacy Abrams!
Update
“in addition to “tens of thousands” of absentee ballots were initial hurdles in the delay for the voting results. The resulting delay over an error involving more than 100,000 test ballots,”
Just enough to win, no doubt.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-eric-adams-wins-new-york-mayoral-primary?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spot_im_redirect_source=pitc&spot_im_comment_id=sp_KdDQcPEW_60e4edd7678ae62008e97f70_c_1uxumvYeHP3OlhOkRrHOMB1PW6d&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true
Sorry, I don’t trust those people.