After weeks of trading punches on the campaign trail, two of the leading candidates in the New York City Democratic primary — Kathryn Garcia and Andrew Yang — appear to have formed an alliance
: The pair will be campaigning together Saturday at a slew of events, according to identical schedules released Friday evening.
Indeed, Yang has been polling behind Garcia in recent weeks. But depending on which neighborhoods they hit, the pairing could theoretically deliver support for one half of the team without taking away from the other. Their press schedules indicate a stop in Flushing, for example, where Yang is decidedly more popular than Garcia and is more likely in competition with Adams. But like all ranked-choice strategies in New York City, the gambit and its ultimate payoff remain untested.
He took specific aim at Maya Wiley, the leading progressive candidate in the race who has seen a surge of momentum in recent weeks, but leveled attacks all around the top tier of the the field. Wiley, too, crisscrossed the city, beginning her day outside of the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library — near areas of the borough filled with the type of left-leaning voters she hopes to pick up on primary day. However, much of the press conference appeared to be geared toward convincing moderate Democrats to embrace progressive police policies, which have come under criticism from Wiley’s competitors in the era of rising crime.
Rev. Kirsten John Foy, who leads the nonprofit Arc of Justice, gave Wiley his blessing in particular because of her pledge for more transparency and accountability from the NYPD.
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