Morning Distribution for Wednesday, August 25, 2021

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Wednesday, August 25, 2021 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [Eric Adams]( [How Eric Adams Won The New York City Mayoral Primary]( By [Nathaniel Rakich]( For two months we’ve known that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams won New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor with 31 percent of first-place votes (he finally achieved a majority in the ranked-choice election after [eight rounds](20Election/rcv/DEM%20Mayor%20Citywide.pdf) of instant runoffs). But for two months we haven’t known for sure exactly what his coalition looked like. Finally, the wait is over: 57 days after the election, the New York City Board of Elections released [precinct-level results]( of the primary. And they show that Adams’s enigmatic politics found a broad coalition — but one that exists outside the city’s usual power centers. Adams’s politics are [hard to pigeonhole](. (For instance, the former police officer campaigned as the [pro-police candidate]( but he had previously been an [advocate for reform]( within the department.) But perhaps his one unifying characteristic is his anti-elitism, sometimes to the point of grievance. He campaigned first and foremost as a [crusader for New York City’s large nonwhite working class]( using Manhattan’s ivory tower and its “fancy candidates” as a foil. When former city Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and businessman Andrew Yang formed a last-minute alliance with the goal of stopping Adams, he [equated it]( to the suppression of Black and Hispanic voters. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [500 Home Runs Is A Lot Of Home Runs]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.