Stringer says he’s going nowhere. But Eric Adams and Maya Wiley could benefit from any decline in his numbers. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Getty Images/Shutterstock Last Sunday, six days removed from a news conference in which he defended himself against an accusation that he had abused and harassed a campaign volunteer two decades ago, Scott Stringer did what the fallen and the faithful, to say nothing of politicians seeking office, do: He went to church.
When I asked one activist who is still supportive of Stringer how things were looking after the events of last week, he replied, simply, “Like Hiroshima.” Stringer was always an uneasy fit for a movement on the left that is at least a generation younger than he is, that prides itself on putting forward female and diverse candidates, and that prizes people with experience outside of politics and government.
But the primary electorate doesn’t necessarily fall into neat ideological camps with progressives on one side and moderates on the other. There are divisions between those within the political Establishment and those outside it, and Stringer is very much within it. Much of Stringer’s institutional support could migrate over to Eric Adams despite his having firmly planted himself in the race’s moderate lane.
And although the Weiner comparison is not one that Stringer’s campaign embraces, in 2013 the media circus surrounding the disgraced congressman brought a lot of attention from voters, and when the cameras were turned on, Weiner quickly pivoted to the core economic issues of his campaign. It’s why he shot up to first place and stayed there until he finally imploded. Facing his own scandal, Stringer is suddenly all over television, sitting for interviews with four morning shows over the past week.
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