The Votes Are In, And AOC Has Been Handed A Massive Defeat!

Former police Capt. Eric Adams triumphed over a large Democratic field in New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting, many losers are littering the field.

Though Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s name was never on the ballot, she was one of the biggest and it is not a good sign for AOC’s interest to try for a seat in the United States Senate.

As the New York Post reported, the far-left Democrat Maya Wiley -who has been criticized for the often shameless hypocrisy when it comes to protection from criminals and the way she lives her life while defunding the police citywide.

Leftist New York Mayor Bill de Blasio whose Wiley was the legal counsel, is known for being incompetent and likely corrupt in an administration that’s always causing trouble to the Big Apple.

Those are the kind of credentials a candidate should get a cold shoulder from any politician who genuinely cares about his constituents, but they drew the support of AOC.

According to NBC News, weeks ahead of the June 22 primary election, Ocasio-Cortez said Wiley “didn’t just come up to run for mayor but has the experience and has a lifetime of dedication to this,” in an early June endorsement.

It shows that she doesn’t have the votes or anywhere close to the votes to become the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, as of Wednesday morning.

Real questions raise about how Ocasio-Cortez can influence and swing among normal Americans.

And she didn’t even deliver her congressional district to her chosen candidate, – Edmond DeMarch and Ronn Blitzer reported Wednesday at Fox News.

“While Ocasio-Cortez remains wildly popular in her district, the mayoral race indicates that her influence may not extend far beyond that,” DeMarch and Blitzer wrote. “Her congressional district is located in areas of the Bronx and Queens. According to a map of unofficial results from the first round of voting published by Gothamist, the Bronx overwhelmingly supported Adams, and while Wiley fared better in Queens her support was largely limited to the western part of the borough while the rest was mainly split among Adams, Garcia and Andrew Yang.”

That’s bad news for AOC and Maya Wiley, of course. But it was good news for Adams — and potentially for the rest of the country.

If the Ocasio-Cortez power base really doesn’t extend much beyond the liberal hothouses of New York, her shot at having an even bigger impact on national politics from a seat in the Senate doesn’t look as strong as it may seem. (Much to the relief of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, no doubt.)

As the most “law-and-order” candidate running, Adams might have been the most palatable candidate as conservatives are concerned, but in a New York City Democratic primary, the standards have to be pretty loose. Whoever has a chance to win in that competitive environment is almost guaranteed to be more liberal than reasonably sane Americans would like.

But that’s exactly the kind of environment where an AOC endorsement should carry real weight — if she really were the political powerhouse the enraptured mainstream media portray her as.

Instead, her preferred candidate finished third in New York’s ranked-voting system, according to The New York Times. She was among those defeated by Adams, a man with a 22-year career with the New York Police Department — possibly the most vilified institution in New York when it comes to the progressive political wing AOC leads.

That’s not just a defeat, that’s a stinging rejection by one of the country’s most liberal electorates — the kind that should feel like a slap in the face for the arrogant AOC.

Now, that doesn’t mean the kind of New York voters who let a leftist like de Blasio runs the city for eight years have suddenly gotten sane.

Finishing second in the tally, according to The Times, was Kathryn Garcia, another de Blasio flunky who happened to have The Times’ editorial board’s endorsement.

Had one of those two not run, it’s possible the other might have defeated Adams.

Both Garcia and Wiley conceded the race to Adams Wednesday morning, and he will now be taking on Curtis Sliwa, the longtime New York City activist and founder of the civilian anti-crime group the Guardian Angels.

Sliwa won the Republican mayoral primary handily, according to The Times.

The results of that race remain to be seen — though possibly predictable in Democratic-dominated New York.

But the unofficial results of the Democratic Party seem to finally be in, after a nightmarish counting disaster, and they show AOC is not the political force progressives pretend.

New York City is better off for that.

And, with the 2022 midterms getting closer by the day, so is the rest of the country.

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Sources: WesternJournal, NewYorkPost, NBCNews, FoxNews, TheNewYorkTimes