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Maya King

Atlanta, Washington, D.C.

Southeastern Political Reporter at The New York Times

Politics reporter @nytimes covering the South. Tips, etc: [email protected].⚡️

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Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maya King |Jeffery C. Mays

    In a deeply personal speech, Ms. Adams, who is running for mayor, will speak about her father's death from Covid in 2020. She says that as governor, Mr. Cuomo "failed him."The case for Adrienne Adams's bid to become mayor of New York City began in the parking lot of a suburban hospital where she last saw her father alive. More than five years ago, in March 2020, Ms. Adams and her sister drove their father, who was infected with Covid-19, to Long Island Jewish Medical Center as the pandemic grew.

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Maya King

    New York City voters have nine Democrats to consider in this year's mayoral primary, a crowded race made more complicated by the return of ranked-choice voting. They're tired of Mayor Eric Adams. They're warming up to Andrew M. Cuomo. They know little of the 10 other major candidates vying to be New York City's next mayor. And ranked-choice voting has only furthered their confusion.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Maya King

    Here is what to know about how the mayor's decision could affect the mayoral primary. Nine Democrats are challenging Mr. Adams, though none are as close to unseating the mayor as Mr. Cuomo, whose ample name recognition and high-powered fund-raising have fueled his rise to the top of the primary field in nearly every survey of the race.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Maya King

    The left-leaning political party is seeking to avoid a repeat of 2021, when its top candidates were also-rans in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City. Four years ago, as New York City seemed in thrall to a leftward political shift, the Working Families Party endorsed a slate of three progressive contenders for mayor. Disaster struck.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jeffery C. Mays |Maya King

    In the crowded race for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has become a magnet for attention, ascending in the polls and raising money through a mix of social media savvy and a plain-spoken, everyman approach. He has paid house visits to some of his thousands of small donors and taken a New Year's Day plunge into the ocean to dramatize a rent-freeze.

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RT @JasJWright: Responding to the issue for the first time, Kamala Harris called GOP claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, “a…