New York’s Great Comeback Started This Week: Law & Order Winning Both Party Primaries

By: Adam Weiss

New York’s remarkable comeback started this week, as primary results reveal that both parties really do want to restore this amazing city to its full potential.

 

Former NYPD Captain Eric Adams has a significant lead following the first round of the Democratic primary, a great sign that there is still hope to clean up the mess created by the chaotic progressives.

 

The first round narrowed the race down to three candidates. Adams is in the lead (143,657 votes), Maya Wiley is in second (98,014 votes) and Kathryn Garcia in third (97,093 votes). The final results are not expected until the 29th. Still, this is an amazing direction.

 

While many of us have been horrified watching the crime and murder rates skyrocket and the homeless population rapidly growing, the progressive message of defunding the police seemed tone-deaf at best and malicious at worst. Still, this is one of the most liberal cities in the entire world, so it was difficult to predict which way this election would go.

 

The progressive wing of the Democrats had been pushing hard for Wiley, who has the closest ties to Mayor Bill DeBlasio out of any of the candidates, serving for two years on his counsel. She was also endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

 

As we see constant violent attacks on our streets by criminals so bold that they attack in broad daylight, Wiley has called for taking $1 billion away from the NYPD’s $6 billion budget.

 

Her proposal was not a winning one. A poll last week showed that crime is, by far, the most important election issue, beating out COVID — even to Democrats. This means that voters are thankfully ignoring the noisy progressives who are handed a loud megaphone by the media every day. Their boisterous anti-law enforcement rhetoric has helped to make our streets far more dangerous, and everyone knows it. They have overplayed their hand. People will always want to be safe when they walk down the street.

 

It is impossible, even for liberals, not to notice that the city has been looking as scary as it did in the 80s. Our politicians have seemingly been taking their marching orders from far-left activists to undo all the great things that Mayor Rudy Giuliani had previously accomplished.

 

Yet, Adams is a former police officer who ran on a message of making the city safer while working to protect black communities. He has been on the receiving end of sharp criticism and disdain from progressives, who are perpetually letting you know that they believe “all cops are bastards.” This candidate was not an exception for them.

 

On the Republican side, founder of the anti-crime group Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, took a big win — though it is not quite as shocking to see that Republicans value public safety.

 

No matter what happens at this point, voters have sent a clear message that faith in progressive messaging is waning.

 

In Ronald Reagan’s 1989 farewell address, he described, with great love, a shining city on a hill. His sentiment sums up my feelings for New York City perfectly, he said that the shining city, “in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”

 

I can’t wait to see it flourish once again. After all, there is no place like New York and no place like home.

 

Adam Weiss is the CEO of AMW PR, a New York political strategy and communications firm. His firm has represented Jim Brown, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Eboni Williams, Corey Lewandowski, David Bossie, Andrew Giuliani. Governor Haley Barbour, Steve Hilton and more.