Four Bernie Sanders posters hang above the words "Post No Hillarys," spray-painted on construction fencing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. (Photo credit: DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith)
With a few days to go until the New York presidential primary, candidate Hillary Clinton has a 98 percent chance of winning the Democratic vote, according to the latest polling analysis by FiveThirtyEight.
But on the ground — and walls, lamp posts, construction fencing and bridges of New York — her opponent Bernie Sanders seems to have a lock on the street artist vote.
Murals, stickers and scrawled slogans for the Vermont senator have popped up all over the city leading up to the April 19 primary, from a pro-Sanders message that takes up a full wall of a Greenpoint warehouse to a Bernie-as-Muhammad-Ali wheatpaste on the Lower East Side.
But, certainly, Sanders isn’t the only candidate showing up on the street. Hillary Clinton’s image has popped up on trees in Prospect Heights and as a Rosie the Riveter look-alike in Washington Square Park; she’s also shown up in a fair share of negative imagery as well, most often in artwork that criticizes her record on Wall Street.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump, too, is an extremely popular subject and something of an anti-muse for those who loathe him. In fact, in all the artwork dedicated to him — from wood cutouts to graffiti walls to fake campaign posters — we couldn’t find a single piece that favored him.
(And — not due to a lack of effort — we also couldn’t find artwork for or against John Kasich. But we welcome any tips on the existence of such a thing in the comments below.)
To give you a glimpse of what the campaign looks like on the streets of the city, DNAinfo New York rounded up election-related public artwork. Enjoy:
This mural by Hanksy on Orchard Street in Manhattan is part of the artist's national "Dump Trump" campaign, bringing a dizzying array of anti-Trump images and slogans to cities all across the country.
A stencil on the Williamsburg Bridge of Hillary Clinton labels her "100 percent Wall Street."
This "End Mass Incarceration" mural by artist Nick Kuszyk went up at the Market Hotel event space in Bushwick, causing a minor controversy in the street art community unrelated to its message or choice of candidate.
Evidently our neighborhood trees are going for @HillaryClinton. #Hillary2016 #SNL #streetart pic.twitter.com/IfKg0Q39wC
— Regan Kelly (@regan_kelly) October 4, 2015
This stencil of what appears to be Hillary Clinton in sunglasses — a nod to Texts From Hillary, perhaps? — has appeared on trees in Prospect Heights in recent months.
Lower East Side #streetart Rivington & Ludlow #feelthebern #les #nyc @BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/xXASsjtHYZ
— Kasia Pasanowic (@kay_pasa) April 13, 2016
Bernie Sanders gets the Aladdin Sane treatment in a mural on the Lower East Side.
A mural by sidewalk artist Hani Shihada of Hillary Clinton as Rosie the Riveter went on display in Washington Square Park last summer.
(Photo credit: DNAinfo/Nikhita Venugopal)
Red Hook resident and artist David Gonzales created these cutouts of all the remaining 2016 candidates on the front gate of his home, titled "Idiots and a Broad," according to Pix 11 News.
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Someone took to MTA signage to advocate for their favorite candidate.
Street artists VEW and ASER created this mural dedicated to Sanders in Washington Heights in March, according to photographer Aymann Ismail. It has since been removed, he said.
Trump gets zero likes in this mural on the Williamsburg Bridge.
A handmade wooden sign for Bernie Sanders hangs in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, created by "Signs4Sanders," a group that says it's "making art for the movement, not the money" on its Instagram page.
These posters labeling Hillary Clinton as a "paid spokesperson" have popped up recently in the Financial District. (Photo credit: Twitter/@4rilla)
This full-wall mural for Sanders was painted in Greenpoint by Nick Kusyck (who also did the Market Hotel mural) after an online fundraising campaign. However, the project was defaced soon after it went up.
