What Went Down During The 2021 Elections

Based on analysis of the vote, ABC News projects that Democrat Eric Adams will win the New York City mayoral race.

That’s fair, Jacob — perhaps it would be better to characterize Cherfilus-McCormick as “anti-establishment.” She ran against Hastings twice and had the endorsement of Marianne Williamson, but not the usual progressive suspects, as you mentioned.

Nathaniel, I’d caution against categorizing Cherfilus-McCormick as a progressive in the way we typically think of progressives vs. moderates in Democratic primaries. Her big issue was universal basic income, but she’s not really in the mold of a Nina Turner or a Karen Carter Peterson, both of whom had serious progressive bona fides and ran aligned with Bernie Sanders et al. There was a candidate who tried to position himself as the true AOC-style progressive in the race, former state Rep. Omari Hardy, but he’s currently in sixth place.