Violent crime is on the rise in urban areas across the country. … Republicans are already going after Democrats with a three-pronged strategy that includes attacks on crime; the economy, particularly rising inflation and labor shortages; and border security. In response, Democratic strategists believe Democratic candidates and the White House […] Read more »
New polling shows Democrats alarmed about crime, too
… The increased salience of crime, as the rate of homicides and other incidents of violence skyrocket across the country, is now a threat to Democrats’ congressional majorities in next year’s midterms. The party’s left-wing activists advanced “defunding the police” as a campaign slogan throughout much of 2020, without much […] Read more »
The New York mayoral primary is a reminder that Black and Latino voters are pragmatic
Primaries are about factional battles within parties, and Eric Adams won a major fight last week. The message from Adams’s win in New York City’s Democratic primary — echoing that of President Biden’s victory last fall — is that the Democratic Party is much more than the progressive left, even […] Read more »
‘New York City Is a World Unto Itself.’ But It May Tell Us Where Democrats Are Headed.
On the Democratic side of the New York mayoral contest, Eric Adams, the African-American former police captain and Brooklyn borough president, continues to hold a lead over Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley. From a national vantage point, the most significant element of Adams’s campaign so far lies in his across-the-board […] Read more »
How this is the most unpredictable NYC mayoral race in 50 years
… 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 »
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 »