♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >>> in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city's 106th mayor and the city's first african-american mayor. >> i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. >> david dinkins being inaugurated on new year's day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. >> a grandson of slaves was sworn in today as the nation's first elected black governor. >> did you ever think you'd see the day when a black man would be elected governor of virginia? >> no, indeedy. i was born in the '30s. i didn't think nothing like that would happen. >> after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. >> last year's mayoral campaign dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new york's deep racial divisions. now he finds himself scrambling to keep ahead

>> like david dinkins. then we're going to evolve to another level.a role but you have so many other areas. we have to rethink policing in america so we can get to the source of the crisis. >> what have you thought over the last year as you've watched this discussion on policing evolve? what have been your feelings? >> what i've basically stated is we're finally getting message out. as a young man 15 years oil, i was arrested and beat badly by police officers. i didn't say woe is me. i went into the police department because at the same time i lost a good friend who died during the crack wars. i knew we had to have justice and safety, and now people are picking up that conversation. i spent 22 years fighting for safety and justice, and now we're going to continue that under the mayorship of eric adams. >> i ask you about giuliani, because there are people who lived or worked or came through new york city who said, well, that's when crime was down and the days we should go back to. how would you assess he managed crime? >> he used heavy handedness. the

that may account for why dinkins' successor took over, before the attacks of 9/11. was elected in two landslides. that's true. those were general elections with low turnout. that's how elections get skewed when races are effective decided in close primaries. it's no secret the trump years decimated republicans in the big cities. they ain't coming back any time soon. the result, cities like new york have gone from competitive general elections to being one-party towns. the fact de blasio won the democratic nomination with 40% of the vote, but only 22% of democrats participated in that election. and so follow me here. as "the new york times" sam roberts pointed out, it meant only 3% of new yorkers voted for de blasio despite being put on a glide path to city hall. and while turnout is up this time around, still only roughly a quarter of democrats participated in this week's primary. with adams currently having less votes than de blasio did in his primary years ago. thankfully new york had rank choice voting. system used like in london where voters rank their top five

was chosen in the democratic primary, it's going to be the highest turnout since 1989 when david dinkins in the democrat i can primary. >> adams at 32%, wylie 22%, kathryn garcia close behind. there enough vote once you start reshuffling the deck through this ranked choice voting system to get garcia or wylie up ahead of eric adams. >> the first thing is we have to get absentee ballots in. 80,000 were returned but 220,000 were requested. until they're due and counted they won't be able to begin the tabulation for second choice and third choice and fourth choice votes. that's what will happen next. >> let's pretend this is the remedial class how does this work in ranked choice voting. we have the top three. what's the next step here? how do they reshuffle these votes? >> sure. so the way it works is if no candidate gets above 50% which is the case here they will take the candidate who received the fewest first choice votes and eliminate them and reallocate that candidate's votes to whoever those voters chose second, rinse, repeat, do this over and over again until either one candidate get