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Duggan wins Detroit mayoral primary; Adams to be fall opponent Duggan had 72.5% of the vote with 100% of precincts reporting followed by Adams at 10%. Perennial candidate Tom Barrow was third with 6% and second-time candidate Myya Jones was fourth with 5%.  Duggans chief of staff Alexis Wiley called the more than 60 percentage point gap a historic margin of victory. The turnout was listed Tuesday night as 11%, below the 14% rate in the August 2017 primary. Duggan held a Tuesday night party...

Incumbent Mike Duggan was first elected mayor in 2013. In 2017, he was re-elected by a margin of nearly 44 points, defeating Coleman Young II (D) with 71.6% of the vote to Young’s 27.8%. Duggan said that, if re-elected in 2021, he would "work every day to continue to make sure every neighborhood has a future and every Detroiter has a true opportunity to achieve your dreams." Anthony Adams is an attorney and served as deputy mayor of Detroit under former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D). He was...

Detroit — A perennial mayoral candidate is the latest high-profile figure making a bid to take on Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan this fall, joining Kwame Kilpatrick-era deputy mayor Anthony Adams and 11 others, including a handful of repeat candidates. Tom Barrow, 71, submitted petition signatures Tuesday ahead of the 4 p.m. filing deadline, saying "its time for a real Detroiter." Barrow, an activist and former certified public accountant, is seeking certification for the race that would mark t...

Detroit — Mayoral candidate Anthony Adams on Friday touted a crime reduction strategy that would bolster community intervention to stem violence and hopelessness. Adams provided an overview of his crime plan before an audience of about a dozen residents and supporters in the parking lot of a gas station on the citys east side. "Were dealing with issues of hopelessness in our community," Adams said. "Until we begin to understand that we cannot deal with crime without addressing underlying i...