Kathryn Garcia is jumping to second place as the NYC mayoral race tightens

Kathryn Garcia has moved at a striking distance from Eric Adams in a race for the New York mayor’s nail race with a new count of selected ballots lead authority for the retired police captain and the Brooklyn neighborhood president.

Adams led the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for Garcia, who heads the sanitation department, from 51.1 percent to 48.9 percent, a difference of 15,908 votes, according to data released by the city’s election commission. It still has more than 124,000 votes left to process, and is likely to be completed by mid-July.

Maya Wiley, the leading progressive candidate, was in second place after the first round of voting, finishing third.

“Even with today’s selected report in the standings, we are waiting to count more than 120,000 candidate votes and we are confident on the way to victory,” Garcia said.

Adams said the selection of the initial rankings has raised “serious questions,” noting that the number of votes cast by the election commission is more than 100,000 than announced on election night.

“We asked the election committee to explain such massive growth and other irregularities before commenting on the projection to vote on the classification selection,” he said, adding that he was still confident of victory.

Democratic candidates are almost certain to prevail in the November general election that party voters are far more likely than their Republican members.

The competition is being seen up close as a major struggle between the organization of the Democratic Party and the growing progressive wing, which will try to drive the largest American city to recover from the devastating pandemic.

This year’s competition uses the city’s first-ever vote. Voters had the opportunity to select five candidates from the list of candidates on the ballot. The lost candidates are eliminated in a row and the votes are redistributed until only two remain.

After counting on election night, last Tuesday, Adams won 28.8% of the first vote, with former mayor Wiley advising. Bill de Blasio, 19.9 percent and Garcia 17.8 percent.

Garcia, who would become the city’s first female mayor, billed herself as a pragmatist and a senseless manager during the campaign so that the city’s bureaucracy could hardly function. He was late for help.

Both Garcia and Adam, who they would be New York Citythe second black mayor is the moderate wing of the party. On the key issue of public safety, they both spoke out against police diversion and promised to reform the department instead, while tackling the sharp rise in shootings.