… With the primary on Tuesday, the word “mess” is the only real way to describe the Democratic mayoral primary in the country’s most populated and heavily Democratic city. There are a lot of candidates (eight of whom qualified for the final debate last week), a new ranked choice system […] Read more »
How mainstream Democrats are flexing their muscle in 2021
The first five months of President Joe Biden’s term show the moderate wing of the Democratic Party still has a lot of juice left. We see that in the Senate, where moderates like Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are standing in the way of […] Read more »
The New York City Mayoral Primary
Key Points• New York City’s mayors have struggled in their recent efforts to win higher office, but they often become national figures anyway on account of their high-profile position.• Ranked-choice voting as well as the many twists and turns of the race makes it difficult to predict a winner in […] Read more »
Rounding the Turn: The state of New York’s mayoral race
With New York City’s mayoral primary just around the corner, Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley are challenging Eric Adams for the top spot, while Andrew Yang is fading from the front rank, according to a June 9–13 poll of likely Democratic primary voters conducted for the Manhattan Institute. CONTINUED Michael […] Read more »
NYC: Adams Holds 7-Point Lead on Garcia, Would Win in 12th Round of Ranked Votes
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams holds a seven-point lead over former sanitation boss Kathryn Garcia in the New York City mayoral primary – and Adams would edge out Garcia to ultimately win the Democratic nomination after 12 rounds of ranked-choice votes are counted. That’s the result of an exclusive WNBC/Telemundo […] Read more »
Can Democrats embrace diversity of views?
A new report authored by three prominent Democratic organizations over what went wrong for the party’s congressional candidates in last year’s election paints white privilege as a major problem for the party—but not quite in the way you’d expect. The political autopsy, coauthored by Third Way, the Collective PAC, and […] Read more »