Eric Adams Is the Kind of Democrat That Liberals Ignore
Data scientist David Shor joins TNA to discuss why NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams is so popular, why liberals should pay more attention to him, and how Dems can keep the House.
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New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams is a walking anomaly. He’s a former cop, and wants more cops on the street, but he also thinks that the system is racist. And that’s one of the reasons that he’s so popular, according to data scientist David Shor.
“There’s an entire group of voters who aren’t being represented here. And I think Eric Adams kind of represents what they want,” he tells Molly Jong-Fast on this episode of The New Abnormal.
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As someone who looks at polling data, he really doesn’t think the things that Republicans like to yell about—like Critical Race Theory and Cancel Culture—really matter to most people.
“Most of the country is not college-educated, [they’re] median voters, 50 years old, doesn’t have a college degree and doesn’t strongly identify with either left- or right-wing politics,” he explains. “I think that a lot of times we look at things that are controversial among highly educated liberals, to be the same as the things that are highly controversial among, you know, the working class,” and it’s just not.
The two also discuss how Dems can keep their majority in the House, and why this state election may actually be a good indicator if they’ll be able to pull it off.
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