What Next: A Rust-Belt City Might Elect a Socialist

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

India Walton won the Democratic primary for Mayor of Buffalo, New York, in June. Her victory put her on track to become the first socialist mayor in the city’s history, and the first nationwide in more than half a century. The only problem is, her opponent - current mayor Byron Brown - refuses to bow out, and is waging a well-funded write-in campaign in the hopes of keeping his post. How has a self-styled socialist gotten so close to running Buffalo? And why are some Democrats standing in her way? Guest: Ross Barkan, a contributing writer to The Nation and the author of The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronavirus, and the Fall of New York. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Back in the spring, Ross Barquand, who writes about New York politics, was busy covering
0:37.3	the mayoral primary in New York City when sources started coming to him and saying,
0:42.6	listen, there is this other race.
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0:47.7	The mayoral primary in Buffalo.
0:51.9	What I was being told was, look, this is an election where not a great number of people
0:56.9	vote.
0:57.9	And also, it's one where a lot of people are tired of being comment.
1:00.6	And Buffalo is changing and Walton is representative of that change.
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