(Red State)—Never let it be said that New York City Mayor Eric Adams is just bowing quietly out. In a general election campaign in the Big Apple on Thursday, Hizzoner came out swinging, taking the fight directly to his main opponent and the Democratic Party’s mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani.
The mayor isn’t mincing words, either.
Mayor Eric Adams officially kicked off his re-election campaign Thursday, pitting himself as the blue collar candidate saving the city from “silver spoon” socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Adams addressed a raucous crowd of more than 100 supporters — mixed with some vocal hecklers — from City Hall’s steps, arguing his battle-tested record showed he deserved four more years as Big Apple mayor.
“It’s a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a suit and a silver spoon,” he said, referring to Mamdani.
Hizzoner’s announcement came after Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, in which the dark-horse candidate Mamdani stunningly bested former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Bearing in mind the city’s political landscape, this isn’t the worst tack to take. Zohran Mamdani’s pitch will resonate with a lot of wealthy urban liberals, who like socialism because they are wealthy enough to stand it (for now). And it will resonate with some in the dependency class, who will be attracted by the promises of an endless stream of free Schiff.
But the commie Mamdani’s numbers aren’t so good among the working poor, nor among the “people of color” in the city, and there is a lot of overlap in those two groups.
Reactions to this first campaign appearance, by all indications, were mixed.
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