New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing federal corruption charges and his fellow Dems are already jockeying for position to replace him — and it’s a basket of horribles.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference at the Queens Museum on Monday, September 30, 2024 in Queens, N.Y. The “basket” is beyond depressing: Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
becomes acting mayor if Adams leaves; he’s a cop-bashing socialist who’s accused Israel of war crimes over its humane and justified counterattack against Hamas. Brad Lander, the city comptroller, gets the job if Williams passes; he was already planning to challenge Adams next year. He’s a backer of the most insane woke policies on everything from education to COVID to climate and beyond. Hurricane Helene prompts the question: Who’s running the White House?and the others are so awful that they make the disgraced ex-gov who oversaw New York’s pandemic-era care-home disaster and took a shady mega-millions book deal look like theAnd that the local GOP needs to get in gear and actually fight this one out,simply be a job that Republicans cede to Democrats without a battle.
Especially when on everything that actually matters to New Yorkers — crime, schools, our migrant crisis — the GOP is dead-bang, center-of-the-bullseye correct on policy. Any serious GOP contender for the office faces an uphill battle: Hostile media that will scream “white supremacist,” “disinformation” and “extremist” no matter how close to those of the median voter he or she hews.
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