{"id":569807,"date":"2021-06-21T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569807"},"modified":"2021-06-21T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:22:08","slug":"cnn-quizzes-nyc-mayoral-candidate-eric-adams-on-his-claim-that-rivals-teamed-up-against-him-because-hes-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-quizzes-nyc-mayoral-candidate-eric-adams-on-his-claim-that-rivals-teamed-up-against-him-because-hes-black\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Quizzes NYC Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams On His Claim That Rivals Teamed Up Against Him Because He\u2019s Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-quizzes-nyc-mayoral-candidate-eric-adams-on-his-claim-that-rivals-teamed-up-against-him-because-hes-black%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322550177.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s John Berman quizzed New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams on Monday about his claim that two of his rivals, including Andrew Yang, formed an alliance against him to prevent a person of color from being elected mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor them to come together like they are doing in the last three days, they\u2019re saying we can\u2019t trust a person of color to be the mayor of the City of New York when this city is overwhelmingly people of color,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/19\/nyregion\/yang-garcia-endorsement.html\">said<\/a> Adams, who is black.<\/p>\n<p>Yang responded to the allegation at a press conference, saying, \u201cI would tell Eric Adams that I\u2019ve been Asian my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voters are set to head to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the ranked-choice Democratic mayoral primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, two of your main opponents, Kathryn Garcia and Andrew Yang, campaigned together over the weekend. That seemed to bother you. Why?\u201d Berman asked Adams during a Monday appearance on CNN\u2019s New Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell because it just sent the wrong message,\u201d Adams responded. \u201cIt was on June 19, Juneteenth, a federal holiday that was just signed into law. They sent a signal as you have all of the African American and Hispanic candidates in the race. What message were you sending during this time that we\u2019re talking about how do you empower various ethnic groups in politics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou tell me. What message do you think they were sending by campaigning together?\u201d Berman asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Kathryn Garcia, number one, she stated that she was not endorsing Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang stated that he was endorsing her. And his attitude was just basically, \u2018We want to make sure that we\u2019re keeping Adams and others out of the place of mayor.\u2019 It just sends the wrong message to those in our city,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you suggesting it\u2019s racial?\u201d Berman pressed, at which Adams appeared to backtrack on his original accusation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I\u2019m suggesting that those who are running in office in New York, those who are looking at the candidates in the field, they felt as though it sent the wrong message on Juneteenth \u2014 to make that announcement on Juneteenth, with all of the diversity that was in the field of African Americans and Latin-speaking candidates,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>Berman also questioned Adams on a suggestion made by some of his supporters that Yang and Garcia working together works to \u201csuppress the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure I understand how that works,\u201d Berman said.<\/p>\n<p>Adams answered that he \u201ccan\u2019t speak on behalf of my supporters,\u201d but \u201cAfrican Americans are very clear on voter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey feel based on their perception, that it suppressed the vote, then I respect their feelings. It\u2019s not up to me to interpret their feelings,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7177914110429\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYC mayoral candidates Kathryn Garcia and Andrew Yang campaigning together on Juneteenth &#8220;sent the wrong signal \u2026 and that is how many of the African American, Hispanic candidates felt after they saw it,&#8221; mayoral candidate Eric Adams says.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CT3kogacAt\">https:\/\/t.co\/CT3kogacAt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wsr3NLuKsR\">pic.twitter.com\/Wsr3NLuKsR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Day (@NewDay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewDay\/status\/1406936977153400836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a former NYPD captain, held a substantial lead in the mayoral race Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, who ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary, had previously led the mayoral race, but his lead eroded in May.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s John Berman quizzed New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams on Monday about his claim that two of his rivals, including Andrew Yang, formed an alliance against him to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280903,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322550177.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Quizzes NYC Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams On His Claim That Rivals Teamed Up Against Him Because He\u2019s Black","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322550177.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CNN Quizzes NYC Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams On His Claim That Rivals Teamed Up Against Him Because He\u2019s Black","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}