Rejection to the progressive left
The election of Adams is yet another rejection of the progressive left within the Democrats, who are calling for the police to cut resources. Adams is considered pragmatic, he is assigned to the moderate wing and likes to emphasize that he is a working class man and that he has no manicured nails.
On Tuesday, the 60-year-old was announced as the winner of the Democratic primary – albeit with just 8500 votes ahead of ex-head of garbage disposal Kathryn Garcia. With conservative Democrats, including many older blacks, Adams went over better with his call for more public safety than the center candidate Kathryn Garcia and the leftist Maya Wiley.
The fact that Adams, with his close contacts to the real estate industry and his friendly access to Wall Street, is controversial among the left wing of the Democrats will hardly play a role in the elections. This also applies to his political missteps. He was briefly registered as a Republican in the 1990s, and there are also some inconsistencies in his career as a police officer. As a warning of vermin, he once took drowned rats to a press conference, and another time he followed up New York Moving out of going “home to Iowa”.
The mayoral election will not take place until November, but Adams is already the second black mayor of the city after David Dinkins (1990-1993) – in the liberal stronghold New York there are seven Democrats for every Republican voter.
His first election promise he made to a group of young people New Yorker had given, Adams has already fulfilled. After his victory in the primaries, he had an ear pierced.
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