Top Dems vs. Their Own Nominee For Mayor (She’s A Democratic Socialist)
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, October 26th. |
| 0:15.0 | It is one week till Election Day, and there is a very interesting mayoral election taking place in New York right now, |
| 0:22.2 | one that has national implications for democracy, equality, and the Democratic Party in America. |
| 0:29.0 | The thing is, this very interesting New York mayoral race is in Buffalo, not New York City, |
| 0:34.8 | where the election is unlikely to be close. For those of you who don't know this |
| 0:38.7 | story, back in June, a nurse, an activist, and Democratic socialist, Bernie Sanders supporter in the |
| 0:44.7 | presidential races, India Walton won the Democratic mayor of primary in Buffalo over the 16-year |
| 0:51.2 | incumbent mayor, Byron Brown. That was interesting enough. |
| 0:55.8 | Walton would be the first Democratic Socialist mayor of a major American city in decades. |
| 1:00.5 | And she was expected at first to cruise to victory in the general election because, well, |
| 1:07.0 | Republicans are not competitive in Buffalo. |
| 1:09.6 | But what has happened since is the real story. |
| 1:13.6 | Mayor Brown decided he would not accept the results of the Democratic primary and leave office. |
| 1:19.1 | He is waging a write-in campaign for the voting that is now underway. Early voting began on Saturday. |
| 1:25.6 | And even more shocking, many of New York's top Democrats have |
| 1:29.4 | refused to endorse the Democratic nominee Ms. Walton. That list includes Governor Hockel, |
| 1:36.5 | her newly appointed Lieutenant Governor, Brian Benjamin, Attorney General, Leticia James, |
| 1:42.3 | controller Tom Denapoli, and infam, the State Democratic Party chair, Jay Jacobs, who said the party would be under no obligation to support its nominee if KKK leader, David Duke won a primary, so it's under no obligation for India Walton. |
| 1:58.3 | Nice comparison, right, between David Duke and a working class black woman |
| 2:02.7 | running on an equality platform. In just a minute, we'll talk to Buffalo News political reporter Bob |
| 2:08.6 | McCarthy. First, here's a clip of India Walton on this show back in July after she won the primary |
| 2:15.0 | on centering poor people if she's elected because the rich |
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