Democrat Eric Adams won New York City's mayoral race on Tuesday on promises to boost public safety and give voice to working-class residents, drawing on his experience as a police captain and as a Black man who experienced police brutality as a youth.
Adams, the Brooklyn borough president since 2014, will become the city's second Black mayor after easily defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels civilian patrol.
Adams' victory could give President Joe Biden's Democrats some signs of where voters stand as the party strives to maintain a fragile alliance between progressives and centrists in Washington. Democrat Alvin Bragg was elected Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday, the Associated Press projected, making him the first Black person to lead one of the country's highest-profile prosecutor's offices.
Portraying himself as a "blue-collar" New Yorker, he said working-class Democrats had been ignored by the party's more liberal wing. Instead, he has sought to strike a balance between calling for more aggressive policing and vowing reforms, including more diversity in the department's senior ranks.
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