NEW YORK – Brooklyn leader Eric Adams has won the primary within the Democratic Party for mayor of New York City after embracing center-right political positions and vowing to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing.
If elected, former police captain Adams would be the city’s second African-American mayor.
He triumphed in a vast camp of Democratic candidates in New York City’s first major race where rank-and-file voting was used. The results from the latest tabulations published on Tuesday showed that he led over former city health commissioner Kathryn Garcia with 8,426 votes, or just over 1%.
“While there are still a very small number of votes to be counted, the results are clear: a historic, diverse coalition of five working-class New Yorkers led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor. “New York,” Adams said in a statement.
He said he was running to “fulfill the promise of this great city to those who are facing hardship, who are under-privileged, and who are committed to a secure, just, affordable future for all. New Yorkers ”.
Mr. Adams will be the dominant favorite in the general election against Mr. Curtis Sliwa, the Republican founder of the Guardian Angels. In New York City, Democrats beat Republicans 7-1.
