Former Gov. and unbiased mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters on Manhattan’s Higher West Aspect. Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.
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Andrew Cuomo stated on Thursday he doesn’t need Republican President Donald Trump to become involved with “my race” for mayor, however wouldn’t condemn the potential for the commander-in-chief providing Mayor Eric Adams a job to drop out of the competition — a transfer that will doubtless profit the previous governor.
The previous governor, a Democrat now working as an unbiased, insisted he doesn’t need Trump’s assist along with his personal candidacy, however declined to say he’s in opposition to the president interfering with Adams’ or Sliwa’s.
“I don’t want him involved in anything with my race,” Cuomo stated. “What Eric Adams chooses to do is up to Eric Adams. What Curtis Sliwa chooses to do is up to Curtis Sliwa.”
When New York News pressed him additional on whether or not he would condemn such an motion by Trump, Cuomo stated, “I have nothing to do, it’s none of my business.”
“I decided to run in some races. I decided not to run in some races. That was my personal decision. Everybody has to make a personal decision,” he added.
Mayor Eric Adams.Picture by Dean Moses
Cuomo stands to profit probably the most from Adams, who can be a Democrat on an unbiased line, dropping out of the crowded race, as he’s polling in second place to Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani — a democratic socialist Queens Meeting member who handily beat Cuomo within the June Democratic main.
Mamdani is polling at below 50% help in most surveys for the November normal election. The anti-Mamdani vote is presently break up between Cuomo, Adams, and Sliwa — subsequently, getting these candidates to consolidate behind the strongest contender can be the perfect likelihood at overcoming the Democratic nominee.
Cuomo maintained the studies are “speculation” that he is aware of “nothing about.” He added he has not spoken to the president since at the very least summer time, after a shooter tried to assassinate Trump on the marketing campaign path.
“I haven’t spoken to President Trump about it, I haven’t spoken to Mayor Adams about it and it’s speculation,” Cuomo stated.
Mamdani has accused Cuomo of working with Trump behind the scenes to clear the sector for his personal profit. His allegation stems from studies final month that Cuomo and Trump spoke over the telephone concerning the race and that he predicted the president would push Republicans to vote for him over Sliwa throughout a Hamptons fundraiser.
Adams slams Instances for report
In the meantime, Adams — throughout an unrelated Thursday press convention — denied each the Instances story and a Politico report that Trump’s administration particularly supplied him a job with the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement. He additionally took the chance to bash the Instances.
“I’m surprised how standards of reporting at The New York Times have fallen so much,” Adams informed reporters. “I’ve never asked for a job with HUD. I’ve never been promised a job with HUD. I have not communicated with the president. What I must do is what I have always said: stay focused, don’t get distracted by the sensationalism, run our city and keep it safe, and run for reelection.”
For his half, Sliwa stated a job within the Trump administration is one thing that “I am not interested in, I don’t want.”
“I’m not leaving New York City,” he added. “I’m running for mayor as the Republican candidate.”
With reporting from Dean Moses.
