De Blasio trashes 'opportunistic' alliance between NYC mayoral candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Ga

[Polybius]

De Blasio trashes ‘opportunistic’ alliance between NYC mayoral candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia

Mayor de Blasio Monday derided as “opportunistic” the 11th-hour alliance between NYC mayoral candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia.

With just hours to go before polls open Tuesday, de Blasio noted that the ranked-choice voting system is designed to help supporters of two candidates who broadly share “similar views and a similar vision” to vote for both of them.

Hizzoner said the Garcia/Yang alliance appears to be more like a political marriage of convenience.

“This one strikes me as an odd couple situation and a little more opportunistic,” de Blasio said. “These are two people who don’t seem to share a lot of positions.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-2021/ny-nyc-de-blasio-yang-garcia-adams-20210621-rq47b3q7nbdabl25oamct5j3li-story.html

[nycbos]

1. No one like Big Bird.

The fact that he is denouncing it will probably help either Garcia or Yang.

[Akakoji]

2. We all already voted for Garcia for Mayor. Then Morales. Then Wiley.

in an unspoken manner for a long time. Adams still has a lot of questions to answer about where his money comes from. Now, and in the past.

[Budi]

6. LOL. That's true in an election PsyOps sort of way.

Its disengenuous to put out such a statement right before the election.
But that happens every where.

You'd think voters pretty much are decided by this point in time.

[padah513]

3. Yeah I'm kind of in agreement on this one

Especially in a mayoral race. You show be able to stand on your own. Don't use gimmicks, it makes you look weaselly in my opinion.

[Budi]

4. Now you finally call out the scam in NY electioneering?

Why Garcia & Yang?

Hello DeBlasio, you didn't pay attention to the double teaming, tag team that unseated NY Eliot Engel?

This is an election m.o., NOW you finally call it out?

Sooner he's gone the better.

[JI7]

5. He was attacking Maya Wiley earlier.

[Budi]

7. Geez maybe no one wants nor cares to to hear from him anymore.

Ugh.

[notpolltested]

8. I can't tell if DeBlasio is secretly trying to sabotage Adams by appearing to echo what Adams said

yesterday though in less extreme fashion, though a lot of people are saying DeBlasio is trying to help Adams. Yesterday Adams basically accused Yang and Garcia of being racists by trying to collude together to stop the black candidate. "“For them to come together like they are doing in the last three days, they’re saying we can’t trust a person of color to be the mayor of the City of New York when this city is overwhelmingly people of color,” Mr. Adams said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/nyregion/yang-garcia-endorsement.html

In any event, vote for the actual progressive who stands a chance Maya Wiley!

[Peppertoo]

9. Bill should sit this one out.

[NYC Liberal]

10. Well, when the electoral system is changed, then campaign strategies change.

This wouldn't make sense in a single-vote system. In a ranked-choice election, it does.

Would presidential candidates campaign in the same way if we got rid of the Electoral College? Obviously not.