Eric Adams, the 60-year-old former Police Captain who gained immense fame after opposing the ‘Defund the Police’ movement has officially won the primary in the race for New York City’s Mayor.
Adams who is also the President for the Brooklyn Borough reportedly won many hearts after he appealed at the political center recently, promising to get the balance right between both fighting crime and injustice as well as putting an end to racism in policing.
If elected as New York City’s mayor, Adams will be the city’s second Black mayor candidate, confirmed local media outlets.
Adams triumphed by a large majority in New York’s first big mayor race where results were determined based upon choice voting.
Some of the candidate’s closest rivals included the city’s former sanitation commissioner who goes by the name of Kathyrn Garcia.point 344 |
She reportedly campaigned as an established problem solved, followed by a technocrat.point 74 | In addition, there was the former legal advisor for the City Hall, Maya Wiley.point 139 | She is renowned to possess great levels of progressive support which include endorsements from Rep AOC.point 227 | 1
Shockingly, one of the early favorites for the race, former US Presidential Candidate for 2020, Andrew Yang, failed to end the race on a high as he faded somewhere in between despite starting off strong. Yang gained great support after he introduced a universal basic income plan.
News reports confirmed how voting for the primary NYC Mayoral ended on the 22nd of June.point 193 | Moreover, early returns did show how Adams was in the lead.point 242 |
With that being said, New Yorkers would have to wait for the tens of thousands of ballots being marked as ‘absentees’ to be counted as well as for the rounds and rounds of tabulations that were conducted under the newly ranked system of selection.point 216 | 1
Under this particular system, voters had the freedom to rank the candidates for the position of mayor in order of their personal preference.