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What are you talking about? He lost the Democratic nomination to Mamdani. Now he has to run as an independent.
Primaries are held by parties. It’s not entrance into the general election. Anyone with the cash can run as any party they choose. The DNC and RNC have too many contenders, so they run primaries to let us pick their candidates. That’s what primary elections are.
And how much do you want to bet he will be backed and supported by the DNC during his 'independent' campaign?
If anything, they’d give Adams money. They occasionally fund spoilers, just like the RNC. Even though Adams is on the Republican ticket, he’s more likely to be the spoiler in the general election.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect
He knows exactly what he's doing
Yep, and a losing candidate can choose to participate in the general to ensure the opposing party wins by splitting the vote, which is what the establishment Dems do when a progressive successfully primaries the..
First of all, if Cuomo runs as an independent, he’ll make Adams the spoiler to his platform. Secondly, there are only ~350k millionaires in NYC. They’re the ones who will be taxed more by Mamdani’s plan. You’re acting like the city is run by them, but we got the numbers. We just need to show up and vote.
It's literally ranked choice voting. There is hardly any spoiler effect unless there are so many candidates you couldn't possibly find the one's you want to vote for.
The Democratic primary was RCV. The general election will be FPTP.
Ah, fair enough. I genuinely thought it would be RCV, I guess I mixed them up.
But yeah, in that case spoiler candidates are a thing.
I’ve lived in NY since the 70s. Being on the Democratic ticket is all he needs for the average know-nothing voter. He just beat out six other candidates with a grassroots primary campaign. He doesn’t need their money. He just needed to be in the blue/working families column.
But sure, tell me all about how you know everything. I’ll be sure to take notes.