
Eric Adams elected as New York City's second Black mayor, CNN projects
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Democrat Eric Adams has been elected the 110th mayor of New York City, CNN projects, defeating Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
Adams, a retired New York Police Department captain who embraced a public safety message, will be the second Black mayor in the city's history, after the late David Dinkins.
A Brooklyn native who currently serves as its borough president, Adams won a chaotic Democratic primary this summer on a promise to both beef up and reform the NYPD amid worries over a rise in violent crime. His message -- that "public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity" -- resonated with working class Democratic voters outside the traditionally liberal enclaves of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, which fueled his nomination. Adams' general election campaign was much more subdued. He largely ignored Sliwa, a founder of the Guardian Angels and media personality.

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