city. senior correspondent eric shaun has the story from new york. he is likely to become new york city s next mayor. democrat bill de blasio, the city advocate who promises to bring a new liberal era to city hall. thank you for being willing to fight to change new york city and take us in a new progressive direction. de blasio leads joe loeta by as much as 45 points. he s struck a chord with his promise to end the controversial police tactic known as stop and frisk. he believes that unfairly targets minorities. bill de blasio voted to take over 5,000 cops off our streets. but loada, a former deputy mayor under rudy giuliani has hammered away at the issue. he says stop and frisk makes the city safer. police departments in new york city has been one step ahead of the criminal element in the city. that s how they ve been able to reduce crime. and that s what we need to continue to do. de blasio also wants to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund
welcome back to the ed show. this is an important story for america. it s a new york story. but when you start talking about income inequality in this country, you talk about social justice and fairness, all eyes on the big city. last night new york city public advocate and two-time ed show guest, bill de blasio. i should point out he really made a turn in the polls when he was on the ed show on the weekend at 5:00. he won the most votes in the democratic mayoral primary. we won t find out until next week whether de blasio will be named the outright winner or if he will have to face the second-place finisher bill thompson in an october 1st runoff. republican nominee joe loeta, his victory speech last night made it clear, the general campaign is already in full swing. ladies and gentlemen, over the next two months, new yorkers will see two completely different visions for the future of our city.
you know, for more than a decade, the city has been run by republicans. but you wouldn t know it, based on the fact that there are essentially are no republicans in new york, as josh said. and, you know, they re not fielding anybody that looks like they re going to put up any competition against whoever emerges from this primary. and do you think, josh, that s because of the relative quality of the field? no. i think this is actually a pretty weak democratic field. forget about the republican field. joe loeta, who is probably going to be the republican nominee is a talented public sector manager, deputy mayor under guiliani and ran the largest transportation authority in the country. he was good at that and probably should have stayed at doing that. he doesn t have a ton of charisma. i would have said a month ago if bill de blasio, the democratic nominee, gave the republicans an outside shot, because he has been running left and doing things that alien ate a lot of the busine