- Title: 'Everyone's concerned about safety' - NYC lines up to vote
- Date: 2nd November 2021
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 2, 2021) (REUTERS) POLLING STATION AT P.S. 81 IN BROOKLYN VARIOUS OF VOTERS CHECKING IN STACK OF "VOTED" STICKERS VOTERS AT STATION SIGN FOR "VOTE SAFE NYC" VOTER SUBMITTING BALLOT (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORK WRITER, TORY CONNOLLY, SAYING: "If you just scroll through the pictures that are on social media, who really relates to people of all walks of life, all colors, all creeds, all backgrounds, all incomes, and he's a person who does that. Now everyone's concerned about safety. Everyone in this city is concerned about safety. So that's a major issue, and his having been a police captain, he understands that intimately." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ERIC ADAMS CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEER, SCOTT SHOSTAK, SAYING: "Compassion. Care. Experience. Both professional experience with his state senate, but also as a person, as a borough president and as somebody of the community, that's what we need to bring together. Not the divisive politics that we've seen over the last number of years at city, state, and federal level. Eric (Adams) is somebody who feels it. Being vegan is not easy. Being someone who's gone through struggles is not easy. When I hear Eric talk, it speaks to the person inside of me who struggles. I know I do." VOTING BOOTH / VOTING FLOOR SUBMITTING BALLOTS VARIOUS OF VOTERS INSIDE BOOTHS VARIOUS OF VOTERS WITH BALLOTS MAN AT TABLE SIGN FOR NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS ON VOTING BOOTH / VOTING FLOOR EXTERIOR OF POLLING STATION
- Embargoed: 16th November 2021 15:50
- Keywords: Brooklyn Curtis Sliwa Eric Adams Thaddeus Stevens. New York Mayoral election 2021
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics,United States,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001F1WPXZB
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- Story Text: New Yorkers took to the voting booth Tuesday (November 2) to settle what is expected to be a lopsided victory in the mayoral election.
Eric Adams is expected to become the city's second Black mayor, unless Republican Curtis Sliwa - who runs the civilian street patrol Guardian Angels - can pull off a shocking upset.
The Brooklyn Borough president since 2014, Adams held a photo of his mother, saying, "This is Mom's day," as he appeared to vote in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
In interviews with Reuters, Adams supporters spoke of his everyman, law and order appeal.
"Everyone in this city is concerned about safety. So that's a major issue," said New York writer, Tory Connolly. "His having been a police captain, he understands that intimately."
"Being someone who's gone through struggles is not easy," said Adams volunteer worker, Scott Shostak. "When I hear Eric talk, it speaks to the person inside of me who struggles. I know I do."
The winner will take over in January from Democrat Bill de Blasio, mayor the last eight years. He will be tasked with overseeing the largest U.S. city's nascent recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
An Adams victory could give U.S. President Joe Biden's Democrats some signs of where voters stand as the party strives to maintain a fragile alliance between progressives and centrists in Washington.
Adams won the Democratic mayoral nomination in June over several progressive rivals after positioning himself as a moderate who favored more aggressive policing.
Dozens of other major U.S. cities will also choose mayors, including Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston, Miami, Cincinnati, Detroit and Seattle.
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