Weiner vows to stay in NYC race amid new scandal
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July 25, 2013, Thursday
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ANTHONY Weiner had been near the top of most polls in the New York City mayoral race since his late entry in May, but disclosures of a new scandal involving sexually explicit texts and photos could test voters' willingness to forgive him.
The New York Times, in yesterday's edition, and some of his mayoral rivals called on him to drop out of the race.
But Weiner, 48, has vowed to stay in the race and the support of his wife Huma Abedin, a longtime adviser to former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, may make a difference.
After the gossip website The Dirty posted X-rated text messages and a crotch shot that it said the former congressman exchanged with an unidentified woman, Weiner on Tuesday acknowledged sending such messages as recently as last summer, more than a year after he resigned from Congress because of similar behavior with at least a half-dozen women.
When Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 and apologized for the explicit messages that had destroyed his career, Abedin was notably absent.
On Tuesday, when Weiner made a public mea culpa for a newfound scandal his wife was by his side. "I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him," and the sexting matter is "between us," she said, a message that could prove important to shaping voters' views as they digest his latest admission.
Abedin's visible support may help him win voters' approval, too. "I don't think it's a good sign" that Weiner's behavior continued even after his resignation, said Andrew Taub, 22. "But I do believe for some people looking for a sign, for something to bolster his campaign, (the fact that Abedin is staying with him) says a lot."
Weiner, however, sought to cast the newly revealed messages as nothing really new. "I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have," Weiner said.
Weiner said in a July 2, 2012, interview with People magazine that he'd "tried to become a better person" every day since the sexting scandal. And yet the latest indiscretion appears to have started just days after that.
The woman involved in newly disclosed messages told The Dirty that she was 22 when she began chatting with Weiner on a social networking site in July 2012, and that their interchanges lasted six months. Weiner used the alias "Carlos Danger," but she knew she was talking to the former congressman.
The New York Times, in yesterday's edition, and some of his mayoral rivals called on him to drop out of the race.
But Weiner, 48, has vowed to stay in the race and the support of his wife Huma Abedin, a longtime adviser to former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, may make a difference.
After the gossip website The Dirty posted X-rated text messages and a crotch shot that it said the former congressman exchanged with an unidentified woman, Weiner on Tuesday acknowledged sending such messages as recently as last summer, more than a year after he resigned from Congress because of similar behavior with at least a half-dozen women.
When Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 and apologized for the explicit messages that had destroyed his career, Abedin was notably absent.
On Tuesday, when Weiner made a public mea culpa for a newfound scandal his wife was by his side. "I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him," and the sexting matter is "between us," she said, a message that could prove important to shaping voters' views as they digest his latest admission.
Abedin's visible support may help him win voters' approval, too. "I don't think it's a good sign" that Weiner's behavior continued even after his resignation, said Andrew Taub, 22. "But I do believe for some people looking for a sign, for something to bolster his campaign, (the fact that Abedin is staying with him) says a lot."
Weiner, however, sought to cast the newly revealed messages as nothing really new. "I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have," Weiner said.
Weiner said in a July 2, 2012, interview with People magazine that he'd "tried to become a better person" every day since the sexting scandal. And yet the latest indiscretion appears to have started just days after that.
The woman involved in newly disclosed messages told The Dirty that she was 22 when she began chatting with Weiner on a social networking site in July 2012, and that their interchanges lasted six months. Weiner used the alias "Carlos Danger," but she knew she was talking to the former congressman.
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