Mayor Eric Adams forcefully mentioned Friday he’ll proceed his uphill re-election marketing campaign all the way in which to the tip, rebuffing studies of an impending dropout in favor of a profitable job provide from the Trump administration.
“I am staying in this race, I am the only one who can beat [Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran] Mamdani,” Hizzoner mentioned throughout a quick assertion to the press made at Gracie Mansion.
Adams additionally denied that he might be in Washington D.C. to fulfill with Trump administration officers to debate his political future on Monday, following a Friday report from NU1. Nonetheless, each he and his spokesperson Todd Shapiro wouldn’t reply if the reported confab will happen on one other day.
The mayor is mounting a longshot unbiased bid for a second time period in workplace after sitting out the Democratic main. The four-way common election contest at the moment has Mamdani forward, however with out majority assist, with Adams, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa seemingly splitting the average and centrist vote.
On Friday, Adams got here out firing towards Cuomo, operating his personal unbiased marketing campaign after shedding the Democratic main to Mamdani, calling him “a snake and a liar,” and suggesting that studies of Adams’ impending withdrawal from the mayor’s race have been a part of a historical past of the previous governor derailing different Black politicians.
Mayor Adams additional seethed that Cuomo and Mamdani have been “two spoiled brats running for mayor” who “were born with silver spoons in their mouths,” suggesting that he alone represented the need of working-class New Yorkers.
“They are not like us. They never had to fight. They never had to struggle. They never had to go through difficult times like you and I,” he mentioned.
In response, Mamdani blamed each Adams and Cuomo for the town’s affordability disaster, which has been the central focus of his marketing campaign.
“Through the collusion and corruption of the past few months, our relentless focus on the affordability crisis — created by Andrew Cuomo and inflamed by Eric Adams — has not wavered,” Mamdani mentioned in an announcement. “In November, we’re going to deliver a city working New Yorkers can afford and turn the page on the broken, billionaire-backed politics of the past.”
A Cuomo spokesperson declined to remark.
Adams insisted he would stay the race and believes he can win regardless of polls which have often had him operating third or fourth within the subject, far behind Mamdani. He leaned into progress made since he took workplace in 2022 to scale back crime, information the town’s post-pandemic restoration and eradicate road homelessness.
“This is a city that I inherited where crime was out of control, COVID, no one wanted to be on our subway system,” he mentioned. “We can’t go backwards.”
It is a growing story; verify with amNY.com for updates.
