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The popularity of each candidate’s message and chances of victory depend not only on the strength of their personal appeal to voters but also their campaign infrastructure. ....
There is no one formula for victory in the Democratic mayoral primary and the top eight candidates are running vastly different campaigns. The popularity of each candidate’s message and chances of victory depend not only on the strength of their personal appeal to voters but also their campaign infrastructure – including the tacticians, advisors, consultants, and campaign staff members who mostly go unseen but whose work informs the candidates’ policies, positions, fundraising, advertising, and public appearances. As to be expected, consultants, in particular, are having a lucrative year supplying the mayoral candidates with all manner of advice. The more well-resourced campaigns are spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions, on firms and individuals helping them hone their pitch. Leaner campaigns have had to be more creative as they try to curry favor with the electorate with fewer campaign professionals. ....
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File Two of Andrew Yang s opponents in New York City s mayoral race suggested Yang cheated on a pop quiz during a New York Times editorial board interview. Advisers to Shaun Donovan and Scott Stringer both said they doubted Yang answered the questions without getting help. Neither of Yang s opponents have evidence that he broke The Times interview rules. Some of Andrew Yang s opponents in New York City s mayoral race suggested he cheated on a pop quiz during a New York Times editorial board interview without offering any proof of their allegations. Yang gave remarkably accurate answers to the three pop quiz questions The Times posed to all of the Democratic candidates for mayor in individual endorsement interviews. Two of the candidates have been criticized for making wildly inaccurate estimates of the median price of a home in Brooklyn, the median rent for a Manhattan home, and the percentage of New ....
Print Continue to article content Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks during a rally, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. | AP Photo/John Minchillo Yang falls behind Adams for first time in New York mayor’s race poll NEW YORK Eric Adams is leading the field of mayoral candidates in a new poll, marking the first time Andrew Yang is not the top contender since he shook up the race with his unexpected entry in mid-January. Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president, was the first-place pick for 21 percent of the respondents in a three-day survey conducted by Washington, D.C.-based firm GQR, according to a copy of the survey obtained by POLITICO. Yang followed at 18 percent, and City Comptroller Scott Stringer had 15 percent support. ....
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