Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter

Mendte in the Morning sent Natalie Migliore out on the street to talk to the people of NYC about Eric Adams dropping out of the race and what they think about him as his Mayoral run nears its end.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now he's seventeen w oars. Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliori.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Real bombshell and the Mayor's Race. The current Mayor Eric
Adams drops out of his re election bid. How do
New Yorkers feel about that? Let's get the Beat on
the Street with Natalie Migliori. Good morning Natalie, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good morning, Larry.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Well.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Could have been a quieter weekend in New York City
was made eventful by Mayor Eric Adams, who announced he's
suspending his re election campaign. That came out in a
pre recorded video, It seemed with a picture of his mayor,
of his mayor, of his mother sitting by his side.
As he made this announcement, he was in a picture.

(00:43):
He was sitting on stairs and he said he's no
longer running. Really no shortage of reaction from New Yorkers.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
He couldn't win. People don't want him, so might as
well step down.

Speaker 6 (00:56):
I certainly wasn't going to vote for him, so you know,
he probably made the right decision since he's like nowhere
in the polls.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
I mean, well, it changes something for me because I
was actually going to vote for him. So now I
don't know where I am as far as to vote
is concerned.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
I voted for him the first time, but there were
so many clouds over him. You know, you're judged by
the people you surround you yourself with. So yeah, I
could not vote for him again.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
After legal scandals, clearing house in the middle of his administration,
and now saying he is not receiving matching funds to
support his campaign, the mayor leaves behind a race of
three candidates, Republican Curtis Leewat, Independent Andrew Cuomo, and Democratic
nominees or On Mom Donnie. It seems the former governor

(01:45):
of New York, Cuomo has more convincing to do.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
Cuomo is just the same old, same old. I think
he's kind of disgusting. Actually, I don't think he was
a great governor. The way that he harassed all those
women and everything. I mean, why would I vote for him.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
He's not gonna go for me because I'm a woman
of a certain age. I can't trust him.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Actually, you know the funny thing, I'm torn between Siwa
and Fimo because I feel like they're the most experienced.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah. Now, compared to previous street interviews that I've done.
You know, we've been covering this throughout the year, even
since February when nobody knew Mom Donnie's name. Now he's
the front runner. New Yorker is not as quick to
shoot down Curtis Slee wants candidacy today.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Curtis Sleeve has been around forever. He knows the city
wants to clean the streets. He wants safe streets, safe subways.
He's been about but he never gets a chance, so
it's not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
I can laugh about his bandana all I want, but
he doesn't have any sketchy background, you know what I mean.
So if you really waited out, he's against this migrant situation.
He's really about fixing, you know, quality alike, because this
is what we're missing here.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
When she says bandana, you know he's the Red Beret,
the Guardian angel of course. And that woman, her name's seven.
Actually we had a whole discussion. She really had to
talk through what she was looking for in a candidate,
and I think she kind of reached it in her
conversation with me, which I thought was really interesting. Now,
several polls show Mom Donnie is still the front runner

(03:19):
and at least one person told me today that he
is their candidate. However, all three candidates remaining are set
to take part in a forum tonight at the Apollo Theater,
and New Yorkers know what they want to hear, like mindedness.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
The people's concern issues, you know that we're dealing with,
you know, homelessness, and you know, as far as like
the immigration thing, that should be something that should be addressed.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
My main issue is migrants. My issue is is mental illness.
And nobody's talking about the mental illness. And that's one
of I don't get anybody whoever thoughts look at mental illness.
They get my.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Vault, you know, like the affordability of the city. You know,
which is which Mom Donnae is addressing only.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
A certain base vote in New York City, same as
the primary. People say they don't like this one or
that one, but they don't vote, so you get whatever
the Democrats put up.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
We'll see what happens. I mean, that's sort of a
negative outlook on it, and we'll see if anybody changes
anybody's mind in this first forum tonight between the three
remaining candidates, and you know, Larry, it seems the mayor
may have missed the deadline to actually have his name
removed from the ballot, so that was May thirtieth with

(04:30):
the New York City Board of Elections. So some voters
may actually still be confused if they're not paying attention
to the news cycle that he's he still might be
on the ballot his name, but you're not vote for him,
it doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, I'm really surprised. I'm really surprised. First of all,
it's great everybody was involved. Everybody knew about the candidates.
Everybody knew about the election. That's wonderful because that hasn't
always been the case. I also think they were extremely
thought full in their choices. They seem to know how
important this race is. But the fact that in our

(05:05):
talkbacks and in your Beat on the Street Curtis Slee
was name keeps coming up as a stronger candidate now
is really encouraging. And we're gonna be talking to Curtis
Lee while coming up and we're going to tell him
about that. I think he needs to be reinvigorated because
of your Beat on the Street and because of the

(05:27):
people that listen to WOOR. Natalie MIGLIOI WAA reporter with
us every day at this time, she's going to be
back tomorrow morning at eight point fifty. Thanks Natalie,