Candidate Adrienne Adams speaks throughout a Democratic mayoral major debate, June 4, 2025, in New York, U.S.
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Higher late than by no means.
Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is hitting the airwaves along with her first TV advert within the closing days main as much as the June 24 Democratic mayoral major.
Within the 32-second spot, titled “Rise Above,” Speaker Adams broadcasts her marketing campaign’s central message that she is the one candidate within the race who will transcend “the drama” to ship for New Yorkers. It offers a quick introduction to the speaker, a candidate with whom most Democratic voters are possible nonetheless unfamiliar.
“In New York City, we know drama, but as City Council speaker, I rise above,” the speaker says on the pulpit of a church with a gospel choir performing behind her.
The speaker — who has represented a part of southeast Queens on the council since 2018 — additionally highlights her many clashes with Mayor Eric Adams, to whom she isn’t associated.
These embody combating his price range cuts to town’s common pre-Okay program and public libraries, and getting these trims partially restored, in addition to suing to dam his administration’s current government order to permit federal immigration authorities again on Rikers Island.
“Now I’m running for mayor,” Adrienne Adams says. “Not for power or praise, but for my children and for yours. For affordability. For safety. For justice. I’m Adrienne Adams, and I’m in it for us.”
The advert marks the start of Speaker Adams’ multi-million greenback purchase with the beginning of early voting a bit of over every week away, in accordance with her marketing campaign.
The speaker launched her first TV advert, as a number of of her closest opponents have already been on the air for over a month. She is catching as much as former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — the frontrunner, Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani, metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander, his predecessor Scott Stringer, and Brooklyn state Sen. Zellnor Myrie.
The delay stemmed from Speaker Adams having solely unlocked public matching funds final week on account of her late entrance into the race in early March. The town Marketing campaign Finance Board awarded her marketing campaign $2.4 million in public cash at its assembly on Might 30.
The advert blitz kicked off a day after the primary mayoral Democratic major debate. Through the two-hour discussion board, Speaker Adams had a standout second the place she took Cuomo to activity for what she forged as his many missteps as governor that he ought to apologize for.
“No regrets when it comes to cutting Medicaid or health care? No regrets when it comes to slow-walking PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), and vaccinations in the season of COVID to Black and brown communities?” the speaker stated, referring to price range cuts Cuomo enacted in workplace and his dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic. The previous governor disputed her characterizations of his management.
The speaker obtained one other enhance Thursday when main progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ranked her second on a slate of endorsed candidates. Ocasio-Cortez described the transfer to the New York Instances as a approach to develop the progressive tent by interesting to the speaker’s base of working-class Black voters.
