{"id":585535,"date":"2021-07-07T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585535"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:05:16","slug":"eric-adams-outran-prominent-progressives-in-their-own-congressional-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-adams-outran-prominent-progressives-in-their-own-congressional-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams Outran Prominent Progressives In Their Own Congressional Districts"},"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\">20<\/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%2Feric-adams-outran-prominent-progressives-in-their-own-congressional-districts%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=585535&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--><p>Despite running a blue-collar campaign that focused on fighting crime, restoring public safety and improving \u2014 not defunding \u2014 the police, Eric Adams outran multiple high-profile progressives in their congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president and a former NYPD officer and state senator, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/06\/eric-adams-kathryn-garcia-new-york-city-mayoral-race-absentee-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won the Democratic nomination<\/a> to be the city\u2019s next mayor Tuesday after former City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia conceded. Though Adams only won by one point after the ranked choice voting process concluded, he ran up the count in working class neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color across the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t simply a campaign, it was a five-borough movement of working-class New Yorkers coming together for a safer, stronger, healthier City,\u201d Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericadamsfornyc\/status\/1412569806331645958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cAnd our strength and message is why we won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/06\/22\/us\/elections\/results-nyc-mayor-primary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranked first<\/a> on 45% of ballots in the Bronx, giving him a nearly 29 point lead over the rest of the field. He led the field by over 14 points in Queens, and by approximately 10 points in Brooklyn and Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan, the wealthiest of New York City\u2019s five boroughs, was the only one that Adams did not win.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/andrew-yang-kathryn-garcia-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Voters Head To The Polls In Most Consequential NYC Mayoral Race In A Generation)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7231326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7231326\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7231326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7231326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams speaks to reporters in June. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Adams\u2019 victories were striking compared to several prominent progressives. In 2018, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won by just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/results\/new-york-house-district-14-primary-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7% among Bronx voters<\/a> in her primary, while two years later Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman beat Eliot Engel by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/06\/23\/us\/elections\/results-new-york-house-district-16-primary-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">25%<\/a> among the same group.<\/p>\n<p>But while both Ocasio-Cortez and Bowman support defunding the police and Medicare-for-All, Adams adamantly supports the NYPD and centered his campaign around restoring public trust and enabling it to effectively and responsibly protect New York City residents.<\/p>\n<p>And while Maya Wiley, the leading progressive mayoral candidate, was endorsed by Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman and other high-profile progressives, Adams was <a href=\"https:\/\/ericadams2021.com\/element\/endorsements\/\">endorsed<\/a> largely by moderates and labor unions.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/eric-adams-kathryn-garcia-maya-wiley-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Updated Vote Counts Give Adams A Narrow Lead After Election Board\u2019s Debacle)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Eric Adams has said quite well is that we need to listen to communities that are concerned about public safety, even as we fight for critical reforms in policing and racial justice more broadly in our society,\u201d Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tasked with protecting the House majority, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Adams is now poised to become New York City\u2019s next mayor in November, and is an overwhelming favorite to beat Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite running a blue-collar campaign that focused on fighting crime, restoring public safety and improving \u2014 not defunding \u2014 the police, Eric Adams outran multiple high-profile progressives in their congressional &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314204,"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\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Eric Adams Outran Prominent Progressives In Their Own Congressional Districts","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1325262017-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Eric Adams Outran Prominent Progressives In Their Own Congressional Districts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585535","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=585535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}