Four years ago, the Democrats leaning on the left tried to connect to the mayor to lead the New York City. Their cracks helped the moderate Democrat, Eric Adams, win the primary and become the mayor.
Now, as Mr. Adams is looking for the second term under the cloud of the federal indictment of five counts, the progressive leaders of the city hope to do everything that is needed to install one of his own in the Town Hall-or at least create that Mr. Adams is defeated.
“The left left was last extremely disorganized and divided and we want to make sure we have a strategy to keep our party together,” said Ana María Archill, co -founder of the state -of -the -art families. “We have to transfer the mayor’s office from someone who worked for Rich and his friends to someone who will work on behalf of working families.”
The relatively new system of voting in the city, which allows voters to include up to five candidates within the preference, could lead to interesting alliances and new strategies from the main interest groups.
The Working Families Party will support the slate of candidates in their preferred order and asks voters to leave Mr. Adams – and perhaps former governor Andrew M. Cuomo if he entered the race – completely from his ballots. Other progressive groups and trade unions will make their own accompaniment in the coming months.
The hope on the left is that voters express their anger over the victory of President Trump in November by floating into the election elections, and that they choose a candidate who wants to stand up to Mr. Trump will not accept him how Mr. Adams recently is done.
Many of the President’s events in his first week in office – including enterprises of steps to end the initiative of Dei and citizenship of birth, abandon the Paris Agreement on the fight against climate change and the remission of rebels of January 6 – strengthened this desire solely, especially given The mayor’s refusal to criticize the moves.
But with five months left to the primary, none of the left -wing candidates will break completely from the pack.
At least five promising mayors are considered progressive: Brad Lander, city controller; State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani; State Senator Zellnor Myrie; State Senator Jessica Ramos; and Scott Stringer, a former city controller.
Of these candidates, Mr. Lander and Mr. Stringer have the most recognition of names, although not as much as Mr. Adams, who confessed to blame for corruption or Mr. Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 after a number of accusations of sexual harassment that denies .
Mr. Lander received the most money from these five and recently secured a key confirmation from the public advocate of Jumaane Williams.
However, it seems to be Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist lawmaker from Queens, who has the greatest dynamics. During the recent period of raising funds received $ 641,000, significantly more than any other candidateAnd by far he raised individual donors.
Mr. Mamdani, a self-written former rapper C-List, has an impressive online presence. One video in which it combines a rising price halal’s meals To legislation that would reform the rules for the sale of the city, it has accumulated more than 350,000 views on X. Another that shows him that he will immerse himself quickly to the frosty waves on the island of Coney If you want to call freezing rent, more than half a million views attracted. And a longer clip in which he Pays domestic calls For some of his donors and interviews with them, why they decided to support him, attracted more than 600,000 views in less than a week.
Mrs. Archil said she wasn’t surprised Uncertainties for Mr.. Wine33. She said he addressed young people who are “charging status quo”.
“He has clear thoughts and dispositions to listen to people who are often pushed on the edges – these two things create great support,” she said.
Mr. Mamdani has proposed a number of populist plans, including free buses, rent freezing on apartments with rent and rent and Grocery stores in the city. However, he barely registers in public opinion surveys and has been criticized for his past calls for remuneration of the police and his views on Israel; In 2023 he introduced legislation called the law “not on our dime” that should Limited financial support for Israeli settlements.
Some Jewish leaders already have moved against Mr. MamdaniAnd they urged the Jewish and Pro-Israeli voters-especially those whose party alliances move from elections to elections to make sure they were registered by Democrats by February. Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo are solid supporters of Israel and can welcome the chance to face Mr. Mamdani.
Progressive leaders understand that they can face important winds in the largest city of the nation, which is on something more conservative trajectory since Mr. Adams’ victory in 2021. This trend continued in November, when Mr. Trump won 30 percent of the New York City votes, a seven -point jump since year 2020.
Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo can also be more likely to capture dissatisfied central democrats who may have voted for Mr. Trump in November for questions such as crime, immigration and availability.
Also, two other candidates also compete for a slight stripe: Jim Walden, a lawyer who sues to run on the voting line of independence, and Whitney Tilson, former Hedge Fund manager, both received considerable money and expressed admiration and expressed admiration and expressed admiration and expressed admiration and expressed admiration and expressed admiration and expressed admiration and expressed admiration for former mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, centrist.
About a third of democratic primary voters in New York are identified as progressive or liberal, so a successful candidate must address a wider line of voters. Former mayor Bill de Blasio found that the coalition in 2013He drew much of his support from left -wing and black voters.
In the 2021 race, urban progressivists did not connect around the candidate until the last weeks, when many on the left threw their support Behind Maya Wiley, civil rights law.
Critical confirmation from left-wing luminaires such as Alexandrie Okasio-Cortez did not take place until the primary was less than three weeks away. The working party supported Mr. Stringer as the first choice before switching her support Dianne Morales, progressive activist and Mrs. Wiley, and then only Mrs. Wiley.
Mrs. Wiley, who eventually came third in the primary, also resisted the challenges to cross the Kathryn Garcia, a former Hygiene Commissioner who finished second. Mr. Adams defeated Mrs. Garcia by less than 8,000 votes.
As part of the voting system with the evaluated selection, if more of the voters Mrs. Wiley said Mrs. Garcia on the ballot papers, their votes could help Mr. Adams as soon as Mrs. Wiley was excluded.
Some Democrats believe that Mr. Myrie can be a progressive candidate with the widest appeal. An ambitious politician and lawyer who was compared to young Barack Obama, Mr. Myrie led a campaign in black churches and focused on proposals for building housing and Create a universal extra -school school program.
Mr. Stringer ran for the mayor as progressive in 2021 before his campaign accusing sexual harassment he denies. This time he moved to the center and presented himself as a technocrat that the city could make a living.
Mrs. Ramos, who focused on universal care for children and protection of work, could refer to members of the trade unions and Latin voters. But she ends in raising funds.
Mr. Lander, who is already holding a nationwide office and has received a considerable amount of money, may be the best position to face Mr. Adams and Mr. Cuomo, and the mayor often focused on him.
Mr. Lander and Mr. Stringer commissioned public opinion surveys to argue that they are the strongest candidates who have Mr. Cuomo, who leads with more than 30 percent of the first round votes. This week, Mr. Lander will release his survey and show that he will benefit from the second and third elections and that Mr. Cuomo has a high unfavorable evaluation.
When Mr. Lander criticized the mayor’s efforts to reduce street homelessness, Mr. Adams said it was “great to have all these great ideas”. But the city needs “adults, not a cult to tell us how to solve this problem,” he said.
“Listen, you can’t say a cult without a chin,” Mr. Adams said, referring to the progressive movement. The mayor’s office refused to clarify his notes.
And in his state of urban speech at the beginning of this month, Mr. Adams examined attacks that can plan officials, such as Mr. Lander, who called on the police budget: “When others wanted to release the police, we prevented them. ”
Instead of emphasizing his progressive credentials, Mr. Lander claimed to be a competent manager. This month in Brooklyn Bowl held the main fund in Brooklyn Bowl, where he was introduced by Mr. Williams, a public advocate and a prominent critic of Mr. Adams.
Mr. Williams committed himself to introducing Mr. Lander at his vote on his first or second elections. He said on stage that Mr. Lander would protect the New Yorkers from Mr. Trump’s worst policies.
“I am very, very proud to support someone I have been working with for more than 15 years, which stood up when it was difficult,” he said.
Susan Kang, a professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal justice, said that Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Lander do “a great job when they show hypocrisy and failure of Eric Adams”.
She called on progressive candidates to educate voters about how the selection system works.
“It depends on having some messaging,” one or two, “she said.” Otherwise it will be Cuomo. “