By COLlive reporter
Eric Adams was still holding onto his lead Wednesday in the Democratic primary race for mayor, with Maya Wiley narrowly holding onto second place over Kathryn Garcia.
The Brooklyn borough president had about 31% of the vote with roughly 84% of precincts reporting as of 8 a.m., pulling ahead of Wiley, a de Blasio administration lawyer, who had about 22% of the vote, the NY Daily News reported.
The Board of Elections will not declare the winner until mid-July, with absentee ballots and ranked-choice votes still to be counted.
Andrew Yang, a one-time frontrunner in the race, conceded Tuesday night after the numbers showed him with 11% of the vote.
The winner of the Democratic primary will face off against Curtis Sliwa, who won the Republican Party’s nomination, in the November 2 general election.
In Crown Heights, an intense “get out the vote” campaign by a group of Lubavitch activists, appeared to have had an impact, as turnout in Crown Heights was high, according to unofficial research by the group.
At his election night party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Adams thanked his supporters, a diverse coalition from throughout the city, which united Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Indian, and Muslim communities.
Adams, who has a friendship with Chanina Sperlin of the CHJCC dating back many years, warmly embraced Sperlin, and thanked him for his longtime support and efforts during the campaign.
“I will never forget what you have done,” Adams said.
Maury Litwack, Director of state political affairs at the Orthodox Union, acknowledged the efforts of the Crown Heights Political Action Committee, tweeting that the Mayoral campaign reached areas that “delivered votes in serious ways,” including Crown Heights, Far Rockaway, Kew Gardens Hills, and the East/West Side of Manhattan.
He also recognized the activists in Boro Park and Flatbush for “leading the way for decades.”
Dinkins !!!
Give him a chance.
Let’s hope the support shown to Adams will lead to immediate major increases in financial support from the City for CH community activities.
It is all above the funding, the rest is window dressing.
OK, election day came and went.
Official results are what matters, not informal, unofficial, word-of-mouth, exit polls, etc. “The Board of Elections will not declare the winner until mid-July, with absentee ballots and ranked-choice votes still to be counted.”
Time to stop with this distraction and get back to learning, mitzvos, etc.
Hashem runs the world!
Adams will win, but will we benefit.
The Democratic agenda is not one which supports the Torah position on some basic life issues.
We can only hope that Adams will not forget the voters of CH. and we will gain from our helping to vote him in as Mayor.
They really worked so hard to get out our the vote. Now let’s begin a very serious official Voter Registration Campaign – including registering our many bochurim & girls who learn out of town or are on shlichos for absentee ballots. We also must educate people as to why it is so important to hold your nose & register as a Democrat – many votes were lost yesterday because people are registered Republican and so can’t vote in the primary. The numbers of our people who vote are pubic information and votes bring us political power and funds. Keep up… Read more »