Andrew Yang IS leading the pack in the polling for New York City Mayor…
Bill deBlasio is termed out…
Fresh from running for President and having no chance…
Yang brings name recognition to the race….
The local guys running are well known in the City….
By Yang IS a national name…
There have been attempts to define him as not a ‘home grown’ guy…
That has not dented Yangs lead for the Democratic nomination….
The city will be doing ranked choice voting for the first time in this race…
Yang keeps his advantage there also….
Since the city is a strong Democratic strong hold….
A win by Yang in the June primary is tantamount to getting the job come next year…
The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is now less than two months away, on June 22. The polls indicate that businessman and former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang continues to hold a clear lead in the first New York City mayoral election being held under ranked choice voting.
If you stream CBSN without specifying a location, the national feed comes from CBS Channel 2 in New York, where I’ve already seen campaign commercials for Shaun Donovan and Ray McGuire.
For Democrats for NYC mayor….
Stringer and Adams would be expected leaders….
NOT!
Yang has and continues to be the walk on leader….
His numbers are double the 2nd and 3rd placers….
If Andrew Yang sees the mayoralty as a stepping-stone to the Presidency of the U.,S.., he’d be joining some distinguished company (Lindsay, Giuliani, Bloomberg, de Blasio), but if he won election, he’d be the first New York mayor in history to do so, in fact the first mayor to win election to any other office since Ardolph Kline in 1920.
The closest a New York mayor has come to the Presidency is probably in 1812 when DeWitt Clinton was nominated by an anti-war Fusion campaign of the waning Federalists and dissident Democratic-Republicans. to run against the re-election of the sitting w2r president, James Madison (D-R). Madison won the Electoral College soundly.
He, he, he….
Yang will have his hands full in the Big Apple
Scratch Scott Stringer for NYC Mayor ….
NYC-Mayor: A former campaign intern for City Comptroller and current Mayoral Candidate Scott Stringer has accused him of attempting to grope her back in 2001. Stringer has denied the claims, but the story is unlikely to help his campaign, especially in the age of Ranked-Choice-Voting….
RRH…