“For the opposite candidates,” he added, “that basically cedes that dialogue to Adams.”An NY1-Ipsos ballot launched on Monday discovered that 46 %
“For the opposite candidates,” he added, “that basically cedes that dialogue to Adams.”
An NY1-Ipsos ballot launched on Monday discovered that 46 % of probably Democratic voters considered crime and public security as the highest precedence for the subsequent mayor. A staggering 72 % stated they considerably or strongly agreed that the Police Division ought to put extra officers on the road.
1 / 4 of probably voters polled for the survey recognized themselves as extra progressive than the Democratic Get together. Practically an equal share, 22 %, stated they have been extra centrist or conservative. Simply over half referred to as themselves “typically consistent with the Democratic Get together,” which has shifted considerably to the left as an entire lately.
Regardless of the main outcomes, get together strategists warn towards drawing sweeping conclusions from a post-pandemic Democratic municipal contest that’s more likely to be a low-turnout affair.
Nonetheless, metropolis elections lately have been necessary barometers of grass-roots power, together with the 2019 race for Queens district lawyer, the place Tiffany L. Cabán, who ran as a Democratic Socialist, almost defeated Melinda Katz, a veteran of New York politics.
On this 12 months’s race for Manhattan district lawyer, a minimum of three contenders have sought to emulate Ms. Cabán. However the three — Tahanie Aboushi, Eliza Orlins and Dan Quart — have struggled to win help. A extra average candidate, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, has led in fund-raising, together with $8.2 million in contributions that she not too long ago made to her personal marketing campaign, and the few obtainable polls.
Tensions on the left burst into public view when Zephyr Teachout, a candidate for governor in 2014, argued on Twitter that Mr. Quart, Ms. Orlins and Ms. Aboushi had no path to victory.
That drew a pointy response from Cynthia Nixon, who challenged Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo from the left within the 2018 main and helps Ms. Aboushi. (Ms. Teachout helps Alvin Bragg, a former prosecutor who has additionally gained the backing of progressive teams.)