The focus was on New York City and the state of Virginia.
On a new election day in the United States, this Tuesday New Yorkers went to the polls to elect their new mayor, on a very quiet day, with hardly any electoral atmosphere or queues in schools.
One of those that attracted the most attention is that of the mayor of New York, in which the favorite was Democrat Eric Adams, who voted at a college in the Bedford neighborhood, in the New York district of Brooklyn, which the candidate has presided over since 2014, pick up EFE.
This former police officer came carrying a photograph of his mother, Dorothy Adams, who died last March during the electoral campaign and whose image he has used on several occasions to vindicate his poor origin and denounce the historical injustices of the city towards the most humble communities.
“This is all for you. I only have three words: I am like you, “Adams told the media before insisting that he already considers himself the winner of the elections.
And it is that nobody doubts his victory against the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, founder in the 70s of the Guardian Angels urban defense patrols and who has little support in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.
Sliwa went to his polling place in the borough of Manhattan with one of his cats on his lap and his arm in a sling, after he was hit by a taxi this week. He asked for the vote of his fellow citizens, to, among other things, lift the veto imposed by the city on officials who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus, one of his electoral promises, in addition to removing his characteristic red beret.
New York’s 400,000 or so civil servants are required to get vaccinated if they want to keep their jobs and wages, a move Adams supports.
The polling stations are scheduled to close their doors at 9:00 p.m. The first conclusive results could be known before midnight, although officials will still have to wait for the counting of the votes by mail.
In addition to their mayor, New Yorkers also renew on Tuesday part of the Municipal Council and other public offices, such as the presidents of four of the five districts of the Big Apple, various prosecutors or the ombudsman.
Meanwhile, in the state of Virginia, citizens had to choose their next governor, in a race with a small margin of error that is considered the first great test of President Joe Biden’s political brand, he recalls AFP.
The Virginia governor’s election has become a thermometer for the presidency of Biden, whose popularity has fallen in the polls and who is hoping for a victory for the Democratic field, a year before a key legislative election.
Although Virginia voted widely for the Democratic president in elections a year ago, Biden’s popularity has been compromised after America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
At the local level, the advance of Terry McAuliffe, 64, and former governor of this neighboring state of the federal capital (2014-2018), also seems to have bottomed out against his Republican adversary, Glenn Youngkin, a 54-year-old businessman, and the soundings show them head to head.
A Youngkin victory would give Republicans a conservative platform for the midterm elections, furthering their goal of retaking control of Congress.
As a sign of the importance of the vote, the heavyweights of the Democratic Party – Biden, his vice president Kamala Harris, former president Barack Obama and others – flocked to Virginia to campaign for McAuliffe.
The election is also a test of Biden’s ability to seduce the middle class, which has been identified as the great beneficiary of his investment plans – one for infrastructure and the other for social and climate content – with which he aspires to transform the economy. country. But those plans are blocked in Congress.
Another election in the state, that of lieutenant governor, will be historic, because a black woman will take office for the first time: Democrat Hala Ayala, of Lebanese, Afro-Latino and Irish origin, or Republican Winsome Sears, an African-American.
The governor’s seat is also up for grabs Tuesday in New Jersey. The outgoing candidate, Democrat Phil Murphy, is leading the polls against moderate Republican Jack Ciattarelli. (I)
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