Headline Roundup June 23, 2021
Eric Adams Leads in NYC Mayoral Primary
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams leads in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary by a ten-point margin, with 31.6% of the vote as of Wednesday morning. It may be weeks before a winner is declared due to the use of ranked-choice voting, where people rank candidates in order of preference instead of just voting for one.
Adams has pushed for police reform and had made public safety the central message of his campaign.
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National Review (News)
As of early Wednesday morning, New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams leads the Democratic primary contest by a comfortable ten-point margin, but remains short of outright victory thanks to the delays in ballot-counting caused by the city’s adoption of ranked-choice voting.
With 84 percent of ballots counted, Adams has secured 31.7 percent of the vote; Maya Wiley, former counsel to mayor Bill de Blasio, follows with 22.3 percent; former New York City Sanitation Department commissioner Kathryn Garcia has 19.5 percent. Businessman and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang became the...
New York Times (News)
Voters on Tuesday took part in the city’s first mayoral election using ranked-choice voting, a system that may delay the declaration of a winner until mid-July.
Eric Adams, who ran for mayor of New York City on a message intensely focused on issues of public safety, emerged on Tuesday with a substantial lead in the Democratic primary, but fell well short of outright victory in a race that will now usher in a new period of uncertainty.
With 82 percent of the results in, Mr. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president,...
USA TODAY
Eric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president and former police captain, is waking up Wednesday in the lead to be New York City's next mayor, but even though voting is done, the race is far from over.
It may take several weeks to find out who won the Democratic primary for mayor, with absentee ballots still trickling in and a new ranked choice voting system allowing New Yorkers to list their top five preferences for mayor.
No candidate won an outright majority in the election Tuesday, so the ranked choice preferences of...
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