With four candidates in the race (and counting), progressives look to ranked choice to defeat Eric Adams [View all]

Last July, a few dozen progressive organizers and others supportive of a challenge to Mayor Eric Adams gathered on Staten Island to discuss coalescing around a formidable left-leaning candidate to challenge the incumbent, moderate Democratic mayor.

More than a year later, a single left-leaning challenger has not emerged. Instead, at least four candidates to the left of the mayor have mounted campaigns, posing a challenge to the progressive movement of how to unify a base of voters who are unhappy with the incumbent but who have different allegiances and fall along different points of the left-of-center political spectrum.

Making good use of the city’s ranked choice voting system, and promoting ranked rather than singular endorsements by influential groups, will be a start, some said.

The New York Working Families Party, the progressive organization that many are looking to for lefty leadership in the race, is on board. “We learned a lot from 2021,” co-directors Ana María Archila and Jasmine Gripper said in a statement. “We have to be united. And we have to lean into the power of Ranked Choice. New York deserves a better leader, and we’re organized and ready to roll up our sleeves to elect one, together!”



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