Eric Adams Wins

“Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City… He triumphed over a large Democratic field in New York’s first major race to use ranked choice voting. Results from the latest tabulations released Tuesday showed him leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes, or a little more than 1 percentage point.” (AP News)

The left is divided about whether Adams’s victory is a setback for progressivism and argues that ranked-choice voting was a success.

The right is optimistic about Adams and...