Is it still possible for Republicans to win NYC mayor?

[warandwar]

Yes, its still possible, and I also wonder why NYC doesn't have a big nonpartisan primary, and then a top 2 runoff instead of a partisan general election like other cities do.

Bloomberg pushed for nonpartisan primaries, there was an attempt to revise the charter to allow it, but it didn't go anywhere. Neither party is really for it, since it would reduce a lot of their control, especially over judgeships. It's a good idea but it will never happen.

I could see Eric Adams winning in 2025 with a different ballot line if he lost the primary, honestly. But i think he'll probably win re-election.

[warandwar]

Yes, its still possible, and I also wonder why NYC doesn't have a big nonpartisan primary, and then a top 2 runoff instead of a partisan general election like other cities do.

Bloomberg pushed for nonpartisan primaries, there was an attempt to revise the charter to allow it, but it didn't go anywhere. Neither party is really for it, since it would reduce a lot of their control, especially over judgeships. It's a good idea but it will never happen.

I could see Eric Adams winning in 2025 with a different ballot line if he lost the primary, honestly. But i think he'll probably win re-election.

Do you think he'll be challenged at all in the Democratic primary?  I didn't realize that it was so close in the ranked choice rounds from 2021:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_York_City_mayoral_election

I don't know where his current approval stands, but I heard that he's receiving bad marks for handling the flooding last week...  All I know about him is that he was a policeman and and he was favored much more than Bill DeBlasio, who left office very unpopular.

Yeah 2021 was close - honestly most people i knew didn't really care that much about the race and just voted for Adams because "he shows up." None of the candidates were that impressive.
I am certain he'll be challenged in the primary, but it is very difficult to beat an incumbent mayor in nyc, so I'm not going to assume anything wrt the result.

Adams is screwing my life (and many others) right now as a public sector employee. He's slashing our budget (we were going to hire 25 ppl, now 0). New York is killing me