Former Cop Eric Adams Wins New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary [VIDEO]

Eric Adams’ lead in NYC mayoral primary shrinks due to counting error

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary.

Adams, a former police officer, would be the city’s second Black mayor if elected.

Here’s more from the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Adams received 50.5% of the nearly 938,000 votes. Former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia received 49.5% of votes and trailed Mr. Adams by 8,426 votes—an insurmountable gap as fewer than 1,000 votes remain to be counted. Maya Wiley, a former counsel to outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio, placed third.

“While there are still some very small amounts of votes to be counted, the results are clear: an historic, diverse, five-borough coalition led by working-class New Yorkers has led us to victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York,” Adams, 60, said in a statement.

“Now we must focus on winning in November so that we can deliver on the promise of this great city for those who are struggling, who are underserved, and who are committed to a safe, fair, affordable future for all New Yorkers,” he said.

Adams said he was running to “deliver on the promise of this great city for those who are struggling, who are underserved, and who are committed to a safe, fair, affordable future for all New Yorkers.”

Per The Associated Press, Adams will face off against Republican Curtis Sliwa in the general election. Democrats outnumber Republicans 7-to-1 in New York City.

Adams, a moderate Democrat, has been vocal about his opposition to the “defund the police” movement.

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Brooklyn borough president and New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams speaks to the media while on the campaign trail. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams originally had a significant advantage ahead of the second-place, New York Times-endorsed Kathryn Garcia.

The error announcement immediately threw New Yorkers into a tizzy, with one writing on Twitter: “At this time in our country and you get this s**t wrong??? This gives oxygen to people out there yelling about fraudulent elections. Way to go.”

Ranked-choice voting allows voters to select five candidates on a ballot in preferential order. If no candidate receives 50% of the first-choice votes, there is a process of elimination. The lowest polling candidates are eliminated, and votes from ballots that named them first are reallocated to the candidate their voters ranked next, and so on until there is a winner. 

Adams called the error “unfortunate.” 

“It is critical that New Yorkers are confident in their electoral system, especially as we rank votes in a citywide election for the first time,” he said in a statement Tuesday night. “We appreciate the board’s transparency and acknowledgment of their error. We look forward to the release of an accurate, updated simulation, and the timely conclusion of this critical process.”