Why this progressive state senator wants to challenge Eric Adams

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Zellnor Myrie will need money and name recognition for his bid, even as Adams faces a host of legal and political problems.

Zellnor Myrie’s chance at success will depend on whether he can capture that same insurgent energy from his first state Senate campaign and expand it citywide. | Joseph Spector/POLITICONEW YORK — Zellnor Myrie became a progressive political hero when he rode a national blue wave into office in 2018, unseating a Democratic state senator closely aligned with Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president at the time.

Myrie’s chance at success will depend on whether he can capture that same insurgent energy from his first state Senate campaign and expand it citywide.January announcement Mayor Eric Adams is running for a second term next year, but he faces multiple problems and a growing list of challengers. | Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

“Mayor Adams has brought down crime on our streets and raised test scores in our schools while creating more jobs than New York has ever had, raising wages for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and lowering the Black unemployment rate — all while handling multiple crises, from COVID to migrants,” she said. “And that is why New Yorkers — especially working class New Yorkers — will be behind him for mayor.

 

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