Suspect Accused Of Stabbing Eric Adams Campaign Volunteer Charged With Attempted Murder
Police arrested a homeless man and charged him with attempted murder after a campaign volunteer for mayoral candidate Eric Adams was stabbed in the Bronx.
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Police arrested a homeless man and charged him with attempted murder after a campaign volunteer for mayoral candidate Eric Adams was stabbed in the Bronx.
There have been more reverberations from the Board of Elections' stunning vote counting mistake, moves to finally reform it and end the patronage.
Eric Adams wants a judge to oversee the vote count and preserve the integrity of the ballots, while the BOE is trying to save face after a mistake that one political pundit called a "train wreck."
Even as he waits for the final tally from the Board of Elections, Adams is trying to get a running start on the job, take advantage of this year's early primaries.
There are still tens of thousands of votes to be counted, but Eric Adams is talking like his victory in the Democratic mayoral primary is in the bag.
With ranked choice voting, we won't know who the next mayor will be until next month.
Since none of the Democratic candidates got more than 50% in the new ranked choice voting system, we'll have to wait a few weeks for the official results.
The actual results of the primary won't be known until the week of July 12 when all absentee and affidavit ballots are counted and all rounds of ranked choice are complete.
Ranked choice voting is being rolled out for the first time in a citywide election, allowing people to rank their top choices, instead of picking just one.
With early voting over, candidates only have hours left to make their final pitch.
Candidates in New York City's mayoral primary and other offices up for grabs may have to wait weeks to know the final results.
The stabbing happened Sunday in the Mott Haven section, while the volunteer was handing out campaign literature.
The NYPD said a 42-year-old man was stabbed multiple times at 149th Street and Morris Avenue shortly before 3 p.m.
CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer asked the Republican former mayor, who has endorsed Curtis Sliwa, which Democrat would do the best job.
There are five days left on the Democratic mayoral primary countdown clock, and for many of the leading candidates, it meant harnessing star power to help them make their cases.
With election day a week away, the Democratic mayoral candidates are in hyperdrive, spending big to convince Latino voters, the largest single voting block in the city, to pick them.
On Monday, the two traded jabs, another sign that the entire campaign has taken a turn to the dark side.
As New Yorkers begin casting votes Saturday in one of the most important mayoral elections in decades, the candidates skirmished Friday over crime and whether cops should carry guns.
Top Democratic contenders in the race to become New York City's next mayor face-off in a debate moderated by CBS2's Maurice DuBois and Marcia Kramer.
Mayoral candidate Eric Adams will participate in Thursday night's CBS2's leading contenders debate after all.
Adams allowed reporters inside a Brooklyn apartment he owns in an attempt to say he lives there, after questions were raised about whether he really spends his time in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
His opponents charge it's because he doesn't want to answer tough questions. However, Adams said there is a more important place he needs to be.
The first in-person debate of the Democratic mayoral primary was filled with cross talk and insults.
The race for City Hall has taken an eyebrow-raising twist. The teachers' union has embarked on a stunning strategy to derail the campaigns of the two front-runners.
With just three weeks before voters go to the polls to pick Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor, the men and women seeking the top jobs are throwing punches and launching broadsides.
