voters prioritized public safety and rewarded law and order democratic candidates. in new york city, democrat eric adams a retired police captain, easily won the mayoral race campaigning to bring back plain clothed anti-police units while cracking down on gangs. in buffalo democratic incumbent mayor byron brown not even on the ballot still managed to win to beat a self-declared democratic socialist. he ran on defunding the buffalo police department. voters responded by writing in brown s name and electing him instead. i think it clearly is a rebuke of defund police. it is a rebuke of socialism. in atlanta, the mayoral race will be a run-off between two democrats promising to increase the number of police officers in seattle the progressive mayoral candidate who voted last year to cut the city s police budget in half lost by 30 points. and a year after defunding its police, portland mayor ted
topping our political radar today, president biden making a round of post-election congratulatory phone calls. the president reached out to the new york city mayor-elect eric adams, new jersey governor phil murphy and congresswoman-elect chantal brown and called terry mcauliffe and thanked him for a hard fought campaign. . a republican truck driver is on the verge of unseating a high ranking democrat. after appearing to defeat a democratic socialist for fifth term as buffalo mayor the brown says the voters provided a huge rebuke of her policies. i think it clearly is a rebuke of defund police. it is a rebuke of socialism.
what an unusual race for mayor in buffalo, new york, after losing the primary to democratic socialist india walton, incumbent byron brown decided to run as a write-in candidate, coining the slogan write down byron brown. now, votes are still being counted, but walton seemed to concede last night, wrote this on twitter, it seems unlikely we ll end up with enough votes to inaugurate a walton administration in january. joining us to discuss this is buffalo mayor byron brown. congratulations, it appears, are in order here. thank you. i just wonder as you were enjoying your win what the takeaway is here for you. is this a rebuke of socialism? is this a rebuke of defund the police? is this a rebuke of the progressive wing of your party? i think it clearly is a rebuke of defund police.
it is a rebuke of socialism. and i think there were those from outside the city of buffalo that underestimated the buffalo community. they tried to come in and tell us who to vote for. and the people fought back and we won. so miss walton is accusing you of dirty tricks. she is saying you were backed by republicans. how were you going to manage this? how you going to heal this rift moving forward? well, miss walton is wrong again. she was wrong about a lot of what she said during the course of the campaign. she was wrong about wanting to defund police. she was wrong about wanting to raise our taxes as we re coming through a pandemic. so just another misstatement by miss walton. and the reason why she is the loser in the election is because
here. he won campaigning on crime fighting. bringing back plainclothed antigun police units. brian brown was not on the ballot but managed to win defeating a self declared democratic socialist. walton ran on defunding the buffalo police dipietro. visitors wrote in brown s name and electing him instead. i think it clearly is a rebuke of defund police. it is a rebuke of socialism. and i think there were those from outside the city of buffalo that underestimated the buffalo community. they tried to come in and tell us who to vote for, and the people fought back and we won. in minneapolis where the defund the police movement began after george floyd s murder last summer, voters tuesday rejected a proposal to abolish the police