Many Democrats on the convention had been nonetheless grappling with Tuesday’s election outcomes, wherein quite a few Democrats had been worn out on Lengthy Island, Republicans made sudden positive aspects within the Metropolis Council, and Democratic candidates across the nation misplaced or barely survived even in sometimes Democratic-leaning states.
“We don’t have our fingers on the heartbeat of on a regular basis Democrats,” Mr. Adams stated at a information convention, talking broadly of the occasion. “Democrats don’t need to disband police departments. They need law enforcement officials to do their job. Democrats will not be in opposition to closing Rikers Island, however additionally they need to shut the pipeline that feeds Rikers Island.”
Nonetheless, Mr. Adams and plenty of attendees had been extra typically in a celebratory temper, taking inventory of a Metropolis Council that can have a majority of ladies for the primary time and embracing a sweeping infrastructure invoice handed by the Home late Friday. Round 9 p.m. Friday, shortly earlier than the Home vote, Mr. Schumer was at a celebration hosted by Dominican leaders exhibiting off some unusual dance moves and shimmying with Carlina Rivera, one of many candidates for Metropolis Council speaker.
Earlier within the day, Mr. Adams had insisted to reporters that he was “not concerned” within the speaker’s race and that it could be determined by the 51 members of the Metropolis Council, although almost everybody on the occasion was debating whom he would possibly help — and there are methods, overtly or implicitly, that he or his allies could affect the method.
“I’m simply excited concerning the make-up of the Council — younger, energetic, with loads of concepts,” Mr. Adams stated, including that “seasoned electeds” like Julie Menin, a veteran metropolis commissioner and the town’s census director, and Gale A. Brewer, the Manhattan borough president who’s becoming a member of the Council, would assist information the group.
At an occasion with union leaders the following day in Loíza, a township based by previously enslaved Africans, Mr. Adams vowed to combat “systemic inequalities” and in contrast himself to the abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner.
“I’m coming from the lineage of those that have all the time pushed again in opposition to the system,” he stated.
At a fund-raiser for the Brooklyn Democratic Social gathering, Mr. Adams additionally defended himself from criticism that he was spending time with the town’s elite on the Manhattan nightclub Zero Bond.