San Francisco’s mayor-elect Daniel Lurie (D), who received over the incumbent final week, mentioned Democrats’ losses and his success in an interview Tuesday.
CNN’s Erin Burnett pressed Lurie on the affect of the election outcomes on Democrats.
“Republicans seeing their best numbers in decades,” she mentioned. “And people swings, I imply, it‘s unbelievable, proper, simply to consider it, within the liberal strongholds of New York, Chicago and, in fact, your metropolis of San Francisco. So, mayor-elect, how massive of a wake-up name is that this for the Democratic Get together?”
The mayor-elect, an inheritor to the Levi Strauss fortune and notable California philanthropist, mentioned these in San Francisco “don‘t think of ourselves as progressives or moderates or conservatives.”
“We simply need to get again to frequent sense. Now we have to ship the fundamentals, and that‘s my plan, that‘s the mandate that I used to be elected to meet,” Lurie added.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) conceded to Lurie final Thursday. She additionally known as him to congratulate him on his victory.
Lurie on Tuesday additionally supplied a glance into his agenda for town.
“We have to make sure that we have a fully staffed police department. We have to get our behavioral health and drug crisis under control in our city,” he mentioned.
“We need to make sure our small businesses can thrive,” the mayor-elect added. “Our big businesses need to be coming back to San Francisco. We need to be open for business again. I don’t believe that that‘s a rightward swing, that‘s a commonsense approach.”
Breed had confronted criticism from Democratic opponents in her bid to remain as mayor on points reminiscent of retail theft, open-air drug use and homeless encampments.
Lurie has not held a public workplace earlier than however has advised voters that he’ll be sure that San Francisco has “clean and safe streets.”
The Hill has reached out to The Democratic Nationwide Committee, Breed’s marketing campaign and the mayor’s workplace for remark.
