{"id":12947,"date":"2025-06-25T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12947\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:45:12","slug":"lander-third-place-in-the-mayoral-primary-will-not-stop-fighting-for-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12947\/","title":{"rendered":"Lander, third place in the mayoral primary, \u201cwill not stop fighting\u201d for New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Brad\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Brad Lander gives an election night speech after the polls closed for the Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Photo by Shea Vance<\/p>\n

The mood at City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander\u2019s election night party remained calm as returns poured in for the NYC Democratic mayoral primary, with the NYC Comptroller coming in a distant third place to Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lander supporters trickled in as the party went on, switching between chatting over the music and tuning into news coverage of the race. Robert Callahan, a volunteer for Lander\u2019s campaign, has worked for the comptroller for three years and said he feels proud of the campaign the team has run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that he\u2019d be a fabulous mayor,\u201d Callahan said.\n<\/p>\n

But the mood picked up when it became clear Mamdani, whom Lander cross-endorsed as part of a ranked-choice voting strategy, had built a big lead on Cuomo and appeared on the path to winning the Democratic nomination for mayor.<\/p>\n

\"crowdSupporters of Brad Lander cheer him on at his campaign headquarters.Photo by Shea Vance<\/p>\n

Callahan praised ranked-choice voting for its ability to build coalitions and \u201cpeople power to make movements happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled that we have a coalition that is all working together to build a movement that is for the people,\u201d he said. \u201cIf Zohran wins tonight<\/a>, it is because the left coalesced around a strategy and worked together to make a mayorship happen,\u201d Callahan said.<\/p>\n

Shocking news during Lander\u2019s speech<\/p>\n

Lander\u2019s speech at his campaign\u2019s election night party, which revolved around thanking his family, staff, and supporters, was cut short at 10:25 p.m., when he was briefly pulled aside and informed that Cuomo had conceded the race.<\/p>\n

Amid deafening cheers, the comptroller removed his sports coat, hugged his family, and pivoted his remarks to the future.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have a general election to win. We have work to do we\u2019ve got affordable housing to build,\u201d Lander said. \u201cWe have our immigrant neighbors to protect. We have a generation of young people to inspire. We have a democracy to protect and strengthen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lander had discussed earlier in his remarks his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 17, which took place while he was attempting to escort an individual out of his immigration hearing to the exit of 26 Federal Plaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not stop fighting for [New York], we won\u2019t stop fighting for it. So let\u2019s celebrate everything that we\u2019ve accomplished tonight and wake up tomorrow morning more determined than ever,\u201d Lander said.<\/p>\n

As for Cuomo, whom Lander often criticized during the campaign, the comptroller told the crowd,\u00a0 \u201cAndrew Cuomo is the past. He is not the present or the future of the city. Good f\u2014ing riddance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Lander gives an election night speech after the polls closed for the Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6626,13716,13717,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,13718,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-12947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brad-lander","10":"tag-election-night","11":"tag-mayoral-primary","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayors-race-2025","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114742894667206038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}