The New York City mayoral election is still unsettled as it enters the final stretch before the crucial Democratic primary, with new polls and a big endorsement over the weekend roiling a contest in which rising crime is increasingly the top issue.
In the NY1/Ipsos survey, 33 percent of likely voters view Adams as the best candidate to handle the crime issue. No other candidate even comes close, with Adams leading every other candidate in the field by at least 20 points when it comes to public safety.criticizing both women.
“When I am mayor, we will not follow a law that tells us that we have to choose between safety and having our rights,” Wiley said.Sumathy Kumar, co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of New York City, told Yahoo News that while DSA-NYC is not endorsing a candidate in the mayor’s race, “I understand the impulse to unite behind a progressive candidate.”
However, polling in the mayor’s race has consistently shown the three most progressive candidates — Wiley, city Comptroller Scott Stringer and Dianne Morales, an Afro-Latina former nonprofit executive — with only about 30 percent of the vote combined. The leading moderate candidates — Adams, entrepreneur Andrew Yang and former city Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia — tend to attract between 40 and 50 percent combined.
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