'Adams' victory looks very much like President Joe Biden's primary victory, albeit with something of a New York twist -- and that may just be the key to the Democratic Party's future electoral success,' Lincoln Mitchell writes for CNNOpinion
Lincoln Mitchell teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His most recent book is"The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992." The opinions expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
It looks like New York City's first ranked-choice Democratic primary is finally -- after two snafu-riddled weeks -- coming to an end. Lincoln MitchellEric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough President, is now projected to be the Democratic nominee and, barring some unforeseen circumstance, will be the next mayor of New York City. Adams, an African American, is a complex candidate. A former police officer who later served in the New York state senate, he has held his current position in Brooklyn since 2014.
Fareed: Voters prefer pragmatists to ideologues 05:58A few weeks ago, while cycling through my neighborhood, I happened upon Adams holding a press conference at Frederick Douglass Circle in Harlem with retired Rep. Charlie Rangel. It was a timeless New York City political event, and the older largely African American voters there seemed to be responding positively to Adams' stories of struggle against poverty and police brutality, and of decades living as an African American in New York.