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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%.  Duggan's 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 on the patio of Good Vibes on the city’s east side. The 63-year-old incumbent posed for photos w...

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 also an executive assistant to Mayor Coleman Young, was a board member and general counsel for Detr...

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 "it's time for a real Detroiter." Barrow, an activist and former certified public accountant, is seeking certification for the race that would mark the second go around with Duggan, and Barrow's fifth run for mayor in Detroit. Duggan turned his sig...

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 city's east side. "We're dealing with issues of hopelessness in our community," Adams said. "Until we begin to understand that we cannot deal with crime without addressing underlying issues of poverty, we will continuously be in a cycle of high crime rates, high poverty and high h...