“Tonight, I have made my dream come true and, with all my heart, I will remove the barriers that prevent you from achieving yours”, launched the new city councilor, all smiles, white shirt and thumbs up in front of his supporters gathered in a hotel in Brooklyn. Eric Adams won the New York City Hall on Tuesday, November 2 hands down, an extraordinary journey for this child from a modest family.
The elected 61-year-old Democrat crushed his Republican rival Curtis Sliwa, 67, as planned, according to preliminary results from the city’s elections office. Eric Adams thus won 67% of the votes cast against about 27% for Curtis Sliwa, in this megalopolis on the east coast of the United States classified on the left but where the economic and social inequalities between different communities are extremely marked.
This victory is indeed a consecration for Eric Adams, African-American raised by a mother. housekeeper and cook and a butcher father in Brooklyn and Queens, where he experienced crime and violent police arrests before becoming a police captain and forming an anti-racism union there. He then entered politics, elected local Democrat of the State and the city of New York, stepping stone towards the town hall. “I couldn’t be more proud to represent the city we love as mayor-elect”, he wrote on Twitter, in the wake.
It’s official – our five-borough, knock-every-door, reach-every-voter campaign was successful: We have won the race for Mayor of New York City!
This is my dream come true, and I couldn’t be more proud to represent the City that we all love as your Mayor-elect
– Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) November 3, 2021
In tears after voting Tuesday morning in his hometown, Eric Adams felt that this election represented social revenge for the “little guy” that he was in his youth and therefore for working class New Yorkers.
The successor to the unpopular Bill De Blasio will manage the largest municipal budget in the United States: 98.7 billion dollars for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Finally, Eric Adams is very proud to have gone vegan in 2016 to cure his diabetes and has written a cookbook to convince African Americans to do the same.