Former police officer Eric Adams close to winning NYC mayoral race as ranked-choice votes are tallied - Yahoo News

The result of the New York City mayoral primary will not be known for another week or two, but as expected, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is currently in the lead.

The consensus among observers is that it will be hard for Wiley or Garcia to catch Adams, who dominated working-class neighborhoods in Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.

One recent poll, the Marist survey, backs that up, showing that the most common second choice of Yang voters was Adams.

But it also showed that the most common second choice of Wiley voters was Garcia, and the most frequent second choice of Garcia voters was Wiley.

But the serious point is that if enough voters listed Wiley and Garcia as their first and second choices, one of them could approach 50 percent. .

It’s just really narrow,” the adviser to a defeated candidate said, adding that if enough voters for other candidates listed Wiley second, “she could make it really tight in the final round.”.

Andrew Yang announced Tuesday night that he's dropping out of the New York City mayoral race.Why it matters: The 46-year-old Democrat gained a following during his 2020 presidential campaign and was an early front-runner in the Democratic mayoral primary, which is for the first time taking place under a ranked choice voting system.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets