Yang’s weaknesses also include the fact that he has never before voted in a mayoral election and that he left the city during the worst of the pandemic to stay in the home he owns in the Hudson Valley. Many people focused on revitalizing the city’s economy like what he has to say about luring businesses and tourists back to the city and have appreciated his comeback tour of the city’s reopening from the movies to Madison Square Garden, Coney Island to Yankee Stadium. He is known for his devotion to ‘getting cash into people’s pockets,’ attention on alleviating poverty, thinking about the future of the economy, and business-friendly outlook. Yang’s political strengths also include high name recognition, a large online following and social media presence, and an extensive grassroots donor network, all of which were established during his White House run then built upon when he jumped into the race for Gracie Mansion. He is a cheerleader and a salesman, a populist and an elitist. He is no ideologue, a fact he touts and can help him appeal to a wide swath of voters but also opens him to criticism from many angles and allows opponents to define him. But as the race tightened heading into the June 12 start of early voting, the sheen of political novelty Yang enjoyed earlier faded, his poll numbers dropped, and the extent of his support is unclear in what appears to be a fairly wide open race with several candidates, including Yang, reasonably hopeful that the vote will break their way.Īs is often the case for candidates, some of Yang’s strengths are the flip side of some of his weaknesses: he is creative and spontaneous but can come across as inexperienced and naive his lack of local political involvement indicates independence but leaves him with a knowledge gap he is affable and eager to please, but can seem pandering and prone to switching positions. Yang’s charisma combined with a lack of previous political trappings have found appeal within the electorate among those exhausted by the current political leadership and looking for an energetic and innovative path forward for the city in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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This will be the first election in New York City that will implement ranked-choice voting for its primaries.Andrew Yang at a campaign event (photo: article is part of a series on the leading Democratic mayoral candidates' strengths and weaknesses.]Īndrew Yang, the entrepreneur and former Democratic presidential candidate, has consistently been among the frontrunners in the Democratic mayoral primary to replace the term-limited Mayor Bill de Blasio. The primary will be June 22, 2021, and the general election will take place on November 2, 2021.
While there are currently no prominent Republicans running for the top job, some have speculated that Andrew Giuliani, son of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, may end up jumping into the race however that has yet to be seen. Yang has already got the support of some prominent public figures, such as former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci and actress Whoopi Goldberg. So far, the polling shows Yang with a slight edge over Eric Adams the latest poll only gave him a one-point lead over the Borough President. While publicly he has been pretty quiet about his all but certain bid earlier today, the former Presidential Candidate tweeted, “2021 is going to be epic,” only amplifying the speculation that he will indeed be running. Al Sharpton, a known right of passage for candidates seeking to become Mayor of America’s largest city. So far, Andrew Yang has been quietly putting together a campaign behind closed doors. Yang will, however, have a ton of money at his disposal since his Presidential bid Andrew Yang has become a household name and will definitely have a war chest of cash and supporters lined up to back him when he starts campaigning. The already crowded field has a number of top contenders such as Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Obama Administration, Shaun Donovan, and Congressman Max Rose. Yang, who’s sure to be an automatic front runner, will, however, face opposition to take on the city’s top job. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)Įarlier today, former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang filed papers to start a bid to become Mayor of New York City.
Democratic presidential hopeful entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks to the press in the spin room after the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by The New York Times and CNN at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio on October 15, 2019.
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