Free Republic

Eric Adams was pronounced the winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday after preliminary final numbers showed the centrist won 50.5 percent of the vote. The Associated Press called the race for Adams after the results showed he narrowly defeated former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes. Garcia received 49.5 percent after eight rounds of voting. Adams, a former police captain, beat out a crowded field in New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting. If elected, Adams would become the city’s second black mayor. As Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7-to-1 in New York City,...