The mayoral candidates blazed their campaign trails with fervor in the final weeks before the primary election, shedding masks, embracing voters and hoping their non-Zoom facetime would pay off.
THE CITY traced the top four Democratic candidates’ whereabouts between April 1 and June 22, using public schedules released by their campaigns and social media posts.
The result provided insight into each candidate’s strategy to vye for New Yorkers’ votes — and offered hints on where priorities may be for primary winner Eric Adams, who is likely to become the city’s 110th chief executive due to the overwhelming Democratic voter enrollment.
Unlike his rivals, Adams didn’t spend much time
campaigning in Brownstone Brooklyn or the Upper West Side, areas with
perennial high voter turnout for Democrats. Instead the 60-year-old
former cop frequently campaigned in Upper Manhattan, The Bronx and
southeast Queens — home to significant numbers of Black and Latino
working-class New Yorkers.
“There’s a finite amount of time that you can have a candidate out there campaigning and any campaign will tell you you need to focus that time and energy on your base and your core constituency for a winning coalition,” said Evan Thies, Adams’ campaign spokesperson. “You also follow that plan based on the message of your campaign and the type of voter you’re attempting to appeal to.”
It’s a strategy that paid off.
In Assembly districts, including Queens Village and Laurelton, where Adams showed up much more often than other candidates, six out of 10 in-person voters ranked him in the top spot.
Thies said Adams’ campaign messaging on public safety and affordability resonated across neighborhood lines, speaking directly to the concerns of working-class New Yorkers.
“All of these things matter in a very real way to lower-income and middle-income, working-class communities and they’re going to respond to that message a lot more than wealthier communities,” Thies said.
As a seasoned politician and former activist cop, Adams entered the campaign with significant name recognition. But the campaign still relied on some high-powered surrogates with deep ties to their community to help boost Adams.
In Upper Manhattan, Adams was frequently flanked by Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez, two local elected officials who represent a burgeoning Dominican diaspora in Washington Heights and Inwood. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. was also often by Adams’ side, joining him as he greeted voters.
Unlike his competitors, who largely ignored southeastern Queens, Adams made frequent stops in the area, particularly toward the tail-end of the campaign.
Adams grew up in South Jamaica, and voters in the area are exactly the type of constituency he was hoping to attract: Black homeowners who “are active in civic life and deeply concerned about public safety and motivated in this election by serious concern about the decline of the city,” Thies said.
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Elitist whites are pissed that blacks and Latinos have spoken for themselves!
"Unlike his competitors, who largely ignored southeastern Queens, Adams made frequent stops in the area, particularly toward the tail-end of the campaign."
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AND that "largely ignored" by pretty much every elected official (including the life timers like Comrie and his ilk) is the big reason why Southeast Queens has decorated so much over the years and decades. THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY.
Working class citizens?—or, working poor and politically ignorant (not to mention mostly immigrant, Democrat-indoctrinated peasants who vote for the entire DNC-party-machine-failed line)? Adams is only here for another city pension, as well as the entrenched political patronage to hire an ALL Black, ‘do nothing, know nothing’ staff on the city payroll—exactly like southeastern Queens’ OTHER biggest, unfunny joke, Khaleel Anderson, whose political worthlessness even gives MENDACITY a bad name (that mangy sewer rat just blocked me, a constituent, from his Twitter account on June 8th, because I had the audacity to tell the truth when I publicly called him & his ‘Friends & Family’ staff liars).
Likewise, Adams is a manipulative, exploitative, ‘do nothing, know nothing’ congenital liar and seasoned racist—and, he won’t change anything that he doesn’t have the power to change. We’ve already had one Black, single term dud for a mayor with Dinkins, and the sociopath who’s presently in disgraced residence at City Hall has set the bar so completely low, that it’s ground level!
Face it, electoral sheep—voting doesn’t work, and rank voting is even LESS credible—because the entire system is not ACCOUNTABLE. If the BOEs latest primary debacle, and a racist cop’s pitifully transparent pandering to his subpar, poorly educated enablers doesn’t affirm irreparable and irreversible incompetence—then, I don’t know WHAT!
To First Anonymous: What? WHAT? WHAT elitist whites, joker? This is southeast QUEENS! Con artist Eric Adams rolls into poor, Black communities to sell his worthless penny stock to a community that is bent, ironically, on their OWN racism to vote in someone completely unqualified—STRICTLY BASED on COLOR!—exactly like the reverse racism that carried another ‘Blacky-Lackey,’ David Dinkins to ONE TERM racist victory in 1989—and, the colored-fool masses just did it ALL OVER AGAIN!
Just watch how quickly the flaky chameleon Adams flips like a switch, and starts changing his color by acting White (like Dinkins). Why, he wasted NO time by already dining at Rao’s last week with Republicans—even Stevie Wonder can clearly see what’s about to happen next: History repeating itself!
Seriously, poor people of color are not NEARLY as color blind as you may think—they’re SELECTIVELY color stupid—and falling, once again, right into the self-serving trap of voting for one of their own, who will soon return the favor by ignoring their impoverished plight, with impunity—à la Dinkins!
❝The Forest was shrinking, but the Trees kept voting for the Ax, for the Ax was clever, and he convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood—he was one of them.❞ —Turkish proverb
❝A Fox is always more dangerous in the Forest than a Wolf. You can see the Wolf coming. You know what he’s up to. But the Fox will fool you. He comes at you with his mouth shaped in such a way that even though you see his teeth, you think he’s smiling—and take him for a friend.❞ —Malcolm X
❝The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.❞ —H. L. Mencken
❝The truth that survives is the lie that is pleasantest to believe.❞ H. L. Mencken
❝History is a set of lies agreed upon.❞ —Napoleon
❝History would be something extraordinary—if only it were true.❞ —Tolstoy
“Politicians and diapers should be changed often—and for the exact same reason.” —Mark Twain
"pissed that blacks and Latinos have spoken for themselves"
The blacks may have spoken but the Latinos are coming out in November, most I know were not happy with the democrat candidate and are voting republican
Latinos do not want a black racist mayor (add turncoat cop to that) Adams was all for defunding the police, bail reform and decriminalization of crime.
I wonder what's going to happen if Sliwa wins in November.
The blacks are going to be pissed, they will riot and burn the city down.
People must prepare.
Cuomo II has been doing a great job at seating Sliwa by schmoozing around with Adams and already calling him "mayor"
The City is a biased publication. nothing gets fact checked.
I wonder about their fervent belief in the Democratic Party- makes me think they’re all on
Drugs
Oh The Shitty…..online paper
@“Grey Gardens”
Thank you, “Quotation Drone Guy” , for leaving out the quotations.
Thought the first two lines referred to white Mediterranean Hillbilles.
To the Anonymous fool who referred to me as ‘Quotation Drone Guy,’ and thanked me for “ ... leaving out the quotations.” First of all, I am NOT the ‘Quotation Drone Guy,’ and if I were, then I would be instantly offended by the mischaracterization of the term of drone itself—ironically like the political drone that you and hundreds of others have transformed into, made only worse by how oblivious all of you are toward your own political patronage that gives all of the crooked politicians of New York license to keep screwing you from every angle and orifice—delicious irony, indeed!
If democrats don't like something cause it stops them from breaking the law, they always scream RAAACIST!
If republicans don't like something cause it stops them from breaking the law, they always scream you have a political agenda and you want to politicize everything so they can be prevented from making money.
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