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Eight candidates for the top elected office in the city grappled with major challenges facing the Big Apple from job loss and school reopenings to an ongoing spike in violent crime.
NYC mayoral candidates snipe in first debate, where COVID-19 and public safety take center stage By Adam Brewster, Caroline Linton
May 13, 2021 / 11:13 PM / CBS News NYC mayoral candidates hold first debate
Public safety. Policing. COVID recovery. The top eight candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in New York City s mayoral race faced off in the first debate on Thursday night. Frontrunners Andrew Yang and Eric Adams found themselves taking the most heat, although Adams, for one, got his own digs in.
The winner of the June 22 primary will almost certainly go on to be the heavily Democratic city s next mayor. The candidate will be tasked with helping the city of eight million people recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing major challenges such as rising crime, homelessness, economic inequality and disparities in the public education system.
Five takeaways from the first New York City Democratic mayoral debate
But on Thursday night, the eight leading Democratic candidates to succeed the outgoing, term-limited Mayor Bill de Blasio finally received top billing at their first official debate. Though they shared the spotlight, they did not share a stage, as the gathering took place over Zoom which squeezed some of the juice out of the evening’s more heated exchanges.
Businessman and former 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Andrew Yang, Brooklyn borough president and former police officer Eric Adams, civil rights lawyer and former de Blasio counsel Maya Wiley, former nonprofit executive Dianne Morales, former New York Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia fresh off her endorsement by the New York Times Editorial Board New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and ex-Citigroup executive Ray McGuire all took part Hollywood Squares-style in