Posted on 11/03/2021 6:45:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The incumbent Democratic mayor of Buffalo, running as a write-in candidate, declared victory Tuesday night as he held a nearly 20-point lead over his Democratic Party opponent.
India Walton, a socialist backed by many high-profile progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, refused to concede to Mayor Byron Brown in the highly publicized contest until her campaign sees “all the votes,” her spokesman Jesse Myerson told The Post via text.
Brown, 63, who lost to Walton in the June Democratic primary, claimed what would be a stunning victory in a speech to supporters from his campaign headquarters shortly after 11 p.m.
“Today’s election, it’s not just a referendum on the future of the city of Buffalo, it was a referendum on the future of our democracy,” Brown said.
“At the very beginning they said we couldn’t win, they said it was impossible to win … You can never count a Buffalonian out!”
The race’s unofficial results showed Brown comfortably ahead of Walton, 39, with over 57,000 votes cast on Election Day and during the early voting period.
But mail-in and military ballots won’t be counted until Nov. 16 — which means final results won’t be known for weeks.
Long Island Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi, who endorsed Brown, cheered what looked like a win.
“Byron Brown’s victory tonight is a clear triumph of core Democratic values over the far-left socialist agenda. Voters know that pragmatism, solving problems and actually getting things done is what makes government work better,” he told The Post.
The incumbent also got the stamp of approval from the chairman of the state Republican Party, Nick Langworthy — a former foe — who tweeted the early results indicate “socialism has been defeated in Buffalo.”
Brown, a moderate Democrat, is a 16-year incumbent seeking his fifth term,
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AOC stumped on the campaign trail with Walton.
So Buffalo had two dems running. Ha! I hope they get 200 feet of snow for being douchebag losers.
Byron Brown is no prize, but he may be the best we can hope for. Better than the idiot Walton.
Based on history, the radicals Marxist in the Dem party are going to say they lost for moving too slowly.
They are going to blame not passing Bare Shelves Biden’s big spending bills as the cause for them losing the elections
Yeah, that is EXACTLY what Van Jones was saying last night. He said that CRT is made up, and that Democrats what to give things (like hearing aids to old people) that everyone - black, white, brown, whatever - want. He is such an idiot.
Byron Brown is a 4 term (now 5) democrat standard machine politician from the "ghetto" who simply assumed he didn't have to campaign for the democrat primary. It was a supreme act of laziness and arrogance. The leftist radicals organized a small group of motivated socialistsd to hijack the nomination in the summer.
That shocked Brown into action for his write-in campaign. The socialist Walton's supporters were a few black/social-welfare-government-employed radicals, and squishy white liberals.
The remainder of the city saw what a train-wreck this woman would be.
Sorry. I will do a snow dance so you only get like, I don’t know, 60 feet? Is that okay? You guys are good with snow. You’re 2 degrees south of London fer chrissake. Stop having snow!
Get some global warming. I have credits to sell.
60 feet? Good lord, we get that on the Fourth of July! That wouldn’t even make us break a sweat.
That’s hey hey - hey hey!
:-)
Ha! Okay then. Center city gets 210 and you guys get 50. Feeling generous.
Let me work on a gulf stream for the great lakes.
“Walton stunned the political world by defeating four-term incumbent Brown in a low-turnout June Democratic primary”
In June, Brown’s people forgot to submit the proper paperwork to get Brown on the ticket, so commie Walton won, because she was unchallenged. Sometime between June and Now, Walton stopped referring to herself as a Marxist and started calling herself a Socialist (like that’s any better). She scared people so much that Brown won as a write-in candidate.
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