Mayor Eric Adams earlier than saying his re-election bid on June 26, 2025.
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Mayor Eric Adams, who’s operating an impartial marketing campaign for reelection, attended a fundraiser for his marketing campaign on Friday in Fort Lauderdale, FL, hosted by right-wing influencers and activists.
MAGA influencer Tony Delgado and entrepreneur Hugo Sanchez hosted the fundraiser, which was attended by members of the Fort Lauderdale Younger Republicans and Mothers for Liberty, a number one conservative group that opposes LGBTQ+ inclusion in faculties. Adams additionally recorded an hour-long episode of the right-wing podcast PBD Podcast, the place he attacked Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.
The fundraiser with Trump-aligned people, first reported by Politico, is the most recent signal that Adams, a Democrat who’s operating a reelection marketing campaign as an impartial, is gaining traction with conservatives. Latest polls put Adams as Republicans’ second alternative within the November common election.
In a video posted on Sanchez’s social media, Adams thanks Delgado and Sanchez for his or her help, saying their donations helped hold his marketing campaign afloat.
“I cannot thank you enough,” Adams mentioned. “You kept me on life support, and now I’m off life support, and I’m running around doing what I need to do.”
Delgado, who based a Spanish-speaking monetary literacy group, is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump and has peddled conspiracy theories concerning the “Epstein files,” together with that they reveal politicians’ supposed position in an enormous intercourse trafficking ring. In a July 10 publish, Delgado inspired his followers to vote for Adams.
“Let’s unite being the ONE guy who can stop NYC from becoming a socialist hellhole,” Delgado wrote. “This isn’t about politics, It’s about common sense and the survival of the greatest city in the world.”
Delgado and Sanchez every already donated the utmost $2,100 to Adams’ marketing campaign in late April and early Could, in line with knowledge from the NYC Marketing campaign Finance Board.
The Metropolis Constitution requires the general public advocate or comptroller to imagine the duties of the mayor if the mayor is absent from the town, although it doesn’t specify that the non permanent switch of energy should be made public.
A spokesperson for the Adams marketing campaign, Todd Shapiro, mentioned the marketing campaign doesn’t touch upon fundraising exercise however confirmed that the marketing campaign paid for any bills the town incurred from the journey.
When requested about Adams’ partnership with Republicans in Florida, Shapiro advised New York News that Adams has help from each events.
“The mayor is a Democrat running as an independent; he has support from both Democrats and Republicans,” Shapiro mentioned.
The podcast Adams recorded whereas in Florida was hosted by Patrick Guess-David, a conservative commentator who has turn into fashionable, particularly amongst younger males. Guess-David has attracted criticism for airing white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, vaccine conspiracy theories, and falsehoods concerning the 2020 presidential election.
Guess-David’s different latest episodes embrace assaults on Islam and feminism for harming “Christian values” and hosted company who referred to as Mamdani a “socialist/communist/jihadist/Islamist,” following a sample of Islamophobic assaults in opposition to Mamdani.
Through the episode with Adams, Guess-David advised the mayor he was involved by Mamdani and supported Adams’ reelection marketing campaign.
