Democrat Eric Adams Becomes New York City 2nd Black Mayor

Democrat Eric Adams won New York City's mayoral race on Tuesday, becoming the city's second Black mayor.

Adams won the election on promises to boost public safety and give voice to working-class residents, drawing on his experience as a police captain and as a black man who experienced police brutality as a youth.

He is going to become the New York city's second black mayor after easily defeating Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels civilian patrol.

The 61-year-old man is set to take over in January from Democrat Bill de Blasio, who was term-limited after eight years in office.

He is going to face the task of overseeing the largest U.S. city's nascent recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to confronting wealth inequality, the lack of affordable housing, and struggling public schools.

Residents of New York highly expected Adams to win handily in the Democratic city.

"We are so pided right now, and we're missing the beauty of our persity," he told supporters on Tuesday night. "Today we take off the intramural jerseys and we put on one jersey, Team New York."

His expected victory could give U.S. President Joe Biden's Democrats some signs of where voters stand as the party strives in order to maintain a fragile alliance between progressives and centrists in Washington.

Adams prevailed in the party's primary election with a coalition that resembled, in some ways, the voters who helped elevate Biden to the Democratic nomination in 2020, especially his support among more moderate Black voters.