Nov 06, 2024 06:39 AM IST
Mayor Eric Adams voted for the presidential candidate he had as soon as taken direct purpose at.
Mayor Eric Adams has revealed that he voted for Kamala Harris. Hizzoner headed into the polls on Tuesday, October 5.
As he walked into Public Faculty 81 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, reporters requested Adams who he was backing. “The identical particular person I endorsed,” Adams replied. “VP Kamala Harris.”
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Adams refused to reply any extra questions, claiming that voicing his opinion was “electioneering.” Adams endorsed Harris after she changed Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race. Nevertheless, he has remained reasonably quiet about her candidacy for the remainder of her marketing campaign.
‘I feel that she is the voice that the occasion wants proper now’
Adams is backing Harris regardless of his criticism of the migrant disaster. Earlier this 12 months, he slammed the federal authorities and known as for extra assist in coping with New York’s migrant disaster.
“I’ve been pissed off with the nationwide management. Coping with immigration reform is one thing that we’ve got failed at for years, even previous to this administration. That was very clear. We would have liked one particular person, a czar, to take care of the inflow of migrants that have been coming to our nation who have been paroled in,” Adams beforehand stated in an interview with CNN.
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Adams as soon as even took direct purpose at Harris over immigration on the US-Mexico border. “It’s typically acknowledged that it’s the position of the VP. That’s an excessive amount of in her portfolio to be targeted on simply doing that decompression technique. If not, the decompression technique can’t be New York Metropolis. That’s what we’ve got principally, a witness,” Adams stated in March 2023.
Nevertheless, regardless of his criticism, it’s the VP he endorsed after Biden dropped out. “I feel that she is the voice that the occasion wants proper now,” Adams stated in an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on the time.
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