Eric Adams Leads in NYC Mayoral Primary
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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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