
Lander, a city comptroller candidate, told a small crowd at Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park on Saturday as people with Black Lives Matter signs looked on. Adams says he lives in the basement of a home he owns in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.)Įven Brad Lander’s dad jokes are soothing.

Adams, the front-runner in the mayoral primary, really lives in New York City at all are sort of quaint. Aguiluz, who is a member of the union’s executive board.Īfter the country was nearly lost to Trumpism, the questions about whether Mr. “He understands blue-collar workers,” said Ms. Adams for mayor because he supports a plan to raise E.M.T.s’ pay, which has long lagged far behind firefighters’ in the same agency. Near the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, a diverse group of Eric Adams supporters that included off-duty police officers and emergency medical workers were treated to a mariachi band. Given the rancor of national politics, there’s been something reassuringly familiar about the tone of the campaign here, with candidates and canvassers politely trying to persuade voters in parks and at farmers markets. “It’s a joke,” Joe Lhota, the 2013 Republican nominee for mayor, said of the G.O.P. The victor in the June 22 Democratic primary is so widely expected to win in November that the right-wing New York Post didn’t bother endorsing in the Republican mayoral primary. Primarily, that’s because the city has grown more liberal, while the Republican Party has grown reactionary and out of touch. Now Democrats outnumber Republicans more than six to one. de Blasio was first elected in 2013, Republicans ran New York City for two decades.

Opinion Debate Will the Democrats face a midterm wipeout?
