Eric Adams hit the airwaves Wednesday to discuss how his Democratic primary win, which is almost certain to propel him into Gracie Mansion, has larger implications for national politics around policing, violence prevention and public safety as his chief rivals in the race conceded.
Adams argued Wednesday that he is uniquely positioned to balance reform and safety in a way that could be a model for other metro areas suffering from increased shootings and concentrated, generational poverty. "We have reached a point where we are allowing the dialogue to get in the way of moving us in the right direction," he said in a separate interview on CNN.
Adams said that he has spoken with all of his competitors in the primary and that he would soon begin poring over resumes for his administration-in-waiting. Former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia, who came within 8,400 votes of defeating Adams, congratulated him as she conceded Wednesday outside the Women’s Rights Pioneers statue in Central Park.
Garcia gave a shout-out to her fellow female candidates — Maya Wiley, Dianne Morales and Joycelyn Taylor — for hard-run races.
Instead of assuming correlation=causation, how about you ask Adams voters why they voted for him.