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Eric Adams: “Sitting mayors have won on independent lines. Both Lindsey…”

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You know, this is a fluke. You never win. What they didn't tell you is that people who run on independent lines are normally just crackpots. They just join. But Sitting mayors have won on independent lines. Both Lindsey and Michael Bloomberg, they have won on independent line. It's a different scenario when you're sitting mayor. So when I went on the independent line, we knew that there was another independent line called Working Families Party, and they were giving that to Mandani. (44:33–44:43)

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Asserts that sitting mayors Lindsey and Bloomberg won elections on independent lines.

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