I remember when Andrew Yang was favored to win the NY Mayoral race

[DemocracyWins]

now it might look like Eric Adams will give him a run for his money and might out right win. What happened here? It seems I thought Yang was trying to veer left but seems to have taken moderate positions.

[PoliticAverse]

1. What is happening is reality is replacing name recognition. n/t

[JohnSJ]

2. Interestingly Eric Adams used to be a republican

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)

[Scrivener7]

3. And he's being endorsed by Rupert Murdoch's paper. And he's fear mongering his way

around the campaign trail.

What could go wrong?

[JohnSJ]

4. Exactly

[UTUSN]

5. I remember our '20 Primaries when he seemed to be solid, steady.