New York City Dems go to the polls on Tuesday to vote for who will be for all intents and purposes the next mayor and failed presidential candidate sometime upstate New York resident Andrew Yang is in a war of words with retired NYPD captain and sometime New Jersey resident Eric Adams.
First up, Yang thinks he’s busted the Adams residency scandal wide open by noting that he said he loves to take bubble baths yet the basement apartment told reporters was his residence did not have a tub:
“Eric Adams two debates ago said what he couldn’t do without was a bubble bath. … When he gave reporters a tour of the basement he supposedly lives in, there is no bathtub in the basement. So, I just want people to notice there’s no bathtub.” @AndrewYang https://t.co/i41WI1eQRW
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) June 20, 2021
Yang is such a bad candidate:
just an incredible opening to this @hunterw story https://t.co/nuA8JvPVoO pic.twitter.com/ZshfEoHugS
— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) June 20, 2021
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And Yang’s wife, Evelyn, is whining that he’s not getting enough credit for the stimulus checks that went out to Americans during the pandemic:
“He made the stimulus checks happen,” Evelyn said, arguing her husband’s promotion for universal basic income as the pandemic took hold was directly responsible for some of the coronavirus relief payments. https://t.co/cAz8JqKrh1
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 20, 2021
To make things weirder, Yang forged an alliance with fellow candidate Kathryn Garcia in an effort to game the ranked-choice voting NYC is using this year. Or something:
The strategic alliance between mayoral candidates Kathryn Garcia and Andrew Yang, announced with less than 96 hours left in the contentious Democratic primary, set off an array of criticism from supporters of frontrunner Eric Adams. https://t.co/onfI4kz0N5
— amNewYork (@amNewYork) June 20, 2021
Adams accused Yang and Garcia of dong this to “stop a Black or Latino person from winning the NYC mayoral election”:
“The wrong message to send” on #Junteenth, @ericadamsfornyc says of @AndrewYang and @KGforNYC campaigning together yesterday, adding that the coalition was meant to stop a Black or Latino person from winning the NYC mayoral election. @NY1 pic.twitter.com/fW2FQkREBY
— Juan Manuel Benítez (@JuanMaBenitez) June 20, 2021
Stop the steal, Dem edition!
This can’t possibly be a winning strategy. He’s lost his mind. https://t.co/6W0aFqpkBr
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) June 20, 2021
But it’s not Trumpian, according to Adams, to accused Yang of cheating in an election that hasn’t even happened yet:
.@ericadamsfornyc is asked about comments from his supporters likening @AndrewYang @KGforNYC alliance to voter suppression. He won’t say whether he agrees or not, only that it isn’t Trumpian and that he won’t allow himself to get distracted this close to the election.
— Sally Goldenberg (@SallyGold) June 20, 2021
New York’s election system is already a mess and now they’re adding in RCV for the first time? Ooh, boy:
Adams’ camp ramping up the rhetoric on the Yang/Garcia coalition, talking about RCV manipulation, voter suppression, an attempt to disenfranchise Black voters and steal an election. @RepGregoryMeeks @rubendiazjr @ydanis @cmlauriecumbo https://t.co/HP7shVYi4S pic.twitter.com/YzCr3h3Uaa
— Juan Manuel Benítez (@JuanMaBenitez) June 20, 2021
As for the election, turnout is expected “to be atrocious”:
The turnout in this mayoral primary looks like it's going to be atrocious…
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 19, 2021
Don’t worry, New Yorkers. It will be over soon:
How do you like my new area rug? pic.twitter.com/RTNlIKRFKM
— Eleanor Katz (@skippy814) June 19, 2021
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