Eric Adams declared winner of NYC Democratic mayoral race: AP
| Eric Adams declared victory in the city’s Democratic mayoral race Tuesday after holding on to a razor-thin lead in a pivotal ballot update, putting him on track to become just the second Black mayor in Big Apple history after running a centrist campaign focused on fighting crime and appealing to blue-collar voters.
The Associated Press called the race for Adams shortly after the latest batch of results in the ranked-choice primary were released on Tuesday afternoon. The latest tally came after the troubled Board of Elections added about 125,000 mail-in absentee ballots to the previous count of votes cast in person on June 22 and during early voting. |
