What Eric Adams Shares With Joe Biden
Both men saw their campaigns rescued by their party’s conservative base: Black voters.
Almost certainly Hizzoner.
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A Black ex-cop who takes a strident tone against rising gun violence is likely to be the next mayor of New York City. As unlikely as this may seem to outsiders, especially after a year of protests over police killings of Black men, the success of Eric Adams should not come as a surprise.
That’s because Black voters in the Democratic Party, like White evangelicals in the Republican Party, are the party’s most reliable conservative base. To be clear, the precise definition of “conservative” is elastic, as Black voters are decidedly more liberal on almost all issues than White evangelicals.