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In ongoing retreat, NYC’s county parties sit out mayor’s race
Brooklyn’s Eric Adams stared into the camera on a recent weeknight and declared, borough pride be damned, that he is in fact the “Queens candidate” in the upcoming mayor’s race.
“We have heard reported over and over again that there is not a Queens candidate running for mayor. That is not true. I am the Queens candidate,” the Brooklyn borough president, who grew up in Queens, told its Democratic county organization at a virtual forum earlier this month. “This is a borough that is dear to my heart.”
In ongoing retreat, NYC s county parties sit out mayor s race
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Yang holds commanding lead in mayor’s race: new poll © Barry Williams New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang commands a double-digit lead in the Democrat primary for mayor, with his closest rivals, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Comptroller Scott Stringer, trailing by more than 10 percentage points each, a new poll released early Wednesday morning revealed.
Yang, an entrepreneur, would win 28% of total votes, with Adams projected to win 17% and Stringer getting 13%, according to the poll conducted by Fontas Advisors and Core Decision Analytics. Shaun Donovan and Maya Wiley would get 8% of the vote each, while Kathryn Garcia, Ray McGuire and Dianne Morales scored just 2% apiece.