Eric Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City tonight after he continued to hold onto a thin lead in a new tally of votes that included absentee ballots, according to The Associated Press, the NY Times reports.
The news service called the race for Mr. Adams after results from the city’s Board of Elections showed that he held a lead of one percentage point over his nearest rival, Kathryn Garcia.
With most absentee votes now counted, Mr. Adams led Ms. Garcia by 8,426 votes in the city’s first mayoral contest to be determined by ranked-choice voting.
The results have not been finalized, and there are still a few thousand ballots to count — but with 118,000 absentee votes now accounted for, Mr. Adams had bested Ms. Garcia by a margin that makes it highly unlikely she can close the gap. As the Democratic nominee. Mr. Adams will be the overwhelming favorite to win in November against the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa.
Maya Wiley, who emerged late in the primary as a left-wing standard-bearer, ended up in third place in the tally released on Tuesday. She had come in second place in the initial count of in-person ballots cast on Primary Day and during the early vote period.
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Hip hip hurray. Yippee. I’m so excited, I’m doing cartwheels and backflips as I’m typing.
I intend to vote for Adams because it’s unlikely Sliwa can win given his strange and unsettled life, but is Adams the better choice? I’m not so certain. I think too that having Adams may help the unsettledness of the BLM uprising.