Alvin Bragg pulled ahead with a comfortable lead in the Democratic primary to become Manhattan’s next district attorney Tuesday, June 22, according to preliminary vote counts.
Bragg, a lifelong Harlemite and former prosecutor for the State Attorney General, gained 33.84% of the vote with 71,947 ballots cast for him out of 212,617 total in the eight-way race to become Manhattan’s next top prosecutor, giving him a lead over former federal prosecutor Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who got 30.42% of the vote with 64,682 ballots cast, according with 98.44% of precincts reporting, according to the Board of Elections Wednesday morning.
“To whom much is given, much is required. We have been given a profound responsibility,” Bragg told a crowd of supporters at the Cecil Steakhouse in Harlem. “The responsibility for the safety of Manhattan, the responsibility for the fair administration of justice in Manhattan.”
