We will tell you about that new reporting just ahead. Good Morning And Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, June 23rd, along with joe, willie and me, we have Msnbc Contributor Mike Barnicle in New York and here in Washington Columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post David ignatius, New York times Washington Bureau Chief Elizabeth buh miller, national political reporter for axios Jonathan Swann and white House Correspondent for Politico And Coauthor of the Playbook Eugene daniels. Willie, you all had a Mayors Race in gotham. There was a Mayors Race, no talk of suing snl or yanked off the air for mean impersonations they may have done. Yes, the vote was in, ballots have been cast and the primary race for new York City mayor but we are not going to know for a couple weeks who won. The ranked Choice Voting System prevents us from telling you who won exactly but for now we know that new York City Police Officer Eric Adams is the early leader with 32 of the first voice vote,
Map. there s manhattan, that s about a third of the entire vote here in this primary, kathryn garcia is carrying manhattan and eric adams isn t just losing manhattan, he s getting wiped out in manhattan. what eric adams is doing to offset that, though, is he s winning staten island that s a pretty small amount, winning brooklyn that s 30% of the vote, he s winning queens, he s winning the bronx in a run away, so it s that sort of outer borough strength, that outer borough coalition that is really powering eric adams in this thing. you know, if you sort of slice this even more thinly and you started to look at the neighborhoods here you would see i think pretty clearly a pattern wealthy areas, areas with high concentrations of college degrees in manhattan in particular a kathryn garcia stronghold, she ran in this race with the endorsement of the new york times, i think that s a demographic that the new york times endorsement typically does well with. eric adams is the borough
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