How The Buffalo Mayoral Race Is Shaping Up

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 26, 2021

Robert McCarthy, political reporter at The Buffalo News, discusses the mayoral race in Buffalo, in which the incumbent Byron Brown is running a write-in campaign urging voters to support him, despite his loss to India Walton in the Democratic primary.

→Correction - It was later pointed out in the show that the capital of Vermont is Montpelier, not Burlington!

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