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You may get some deja vu with the news about what just happened in the saga of the NYC mayoral election today.
The election was actually last Tuesday. But they’re still counting and don’t expect to be done until sometime in July.
Brooklyn Borough President and former police officer Eric Adams had been the surprise leader in the race when he came in first place last Tuesday, with 82 percent of the results in. That didn’t make some on the left happy, although he was still a Democrat. The election has ranked-choice voting and he was the first choice of 31.6 percent of the people whose votes had been counted to that point, with Maya Wiley second with 22.3% and Kathryn Garcia third with 19.7%.
Adams’ campaign disputed the validity of the video Saturday. The candidate waved away the charges as “nonsense” and claimed he has led the fight to get New York City public school students back to in-person classes.
Credit: J Lamparski / SOPA Images/Sipa USANew York (77WABC) – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams had to stoke some fires Wednesday after other contenders in the New York City mayoral race accused him of not living in
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