To attract blue-collar black and Latino voters, former police officer and Brooklyn mayor Eric Adams won the Democratic primary in New York City on Tuesday and became a popular candidate for the next mayor.
As the most populous city in the country, the New York mayoral campaign has attracted national attention in recent weeks due to its crowded challenger replacing Bill de Blasio. After being recognized by the New York Times, Adams defeated the former health commissioner Kathryn Garcia (Kathryn Garcia), who was one of the most popular. Vote count display updated on Sunday Adams received 403,333 votes (50.5%), while Garcia received 394,907 votes (49.5%).
Other top candidates include civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley, and entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Young.
Adams, 60, grew up in Brooklyn and Queens. His mother is a cleaner, and his father is a butcher.
In a city that voted for the Democratic Party by an overwhelming majority, Adams is expected to defeat the guardian angel Republican founder Curtis Sliwa in the November election. If Adams avoids a big upset in November, he will become the second black mayor of the city.
The crime rate in New York City is rising, and Adams, who has worked in law enforcement for 22 years and is a retired New York police chief, has not been vague about his policy intentions as the next mayor.
In two recent interviews, Adams emphasized safety and “make our cities safe.”
He also recently conducted a touring propaganda in the national media to promote stronger messages about police and gun safety.
On Sunday, Adams and CNN’s Jake Tapper talked about the National Democrats’ deficiencies in curbing gun violence and reforming police laws. He said the Democrats focused on assault weapons, not pistols.
Adams said in his “State of the Union address”: “I believe these priorities, they are indeed misplaced. This is almost an insult to what we have witnessed in the past few years.” “Many of our presidents, they see these numbers. They know that inner cities—especially blacks, browns, and poor people—are dealing with this real crisis. This president said it’s time not to ignore what’s happening in southern Chicago, Brownsville, and our country, Atlanta. .”
On his Twitter account, Adams posted an endorsing comment from Pastor Al Sharpton: “The way to support police reform is to support good police, and Eric is the perfect person to do this.”
Earlier on Sunday, Adams tweeted that he had a conversation with the famous Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, which may imply that after “cancellation of police funding” became a political topic in 2020 , New York’s police reform may have a wider impact in 2022.
Republicans plan to make crime a key issue in the mid-term elections, while many Democrats keep their distance from many “divestment of the police.” Ipsos/USA Today Poll It was discovered in March that only 18% of Americans support a movement called the “divestment police.”
Great conversation @donnabrazile This morning about the future of the Democratic Party. This is an exciting time! pic.twitter.com/oIgv9Cbiw2
— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) July 11, 2021
