{"id":149255,"date":"2025-08-16T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149255\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:16:14","slug":"adams-pitches-new-yorkers-on-reelect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149255\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams pitches New Yorkers on reelect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping to boost his sagging poll numbers in his re-election campaign, Mayor Eric Adams appeared on NY1 on Friday to explain why he wants to involuntarily remove drug users from the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani picked up another key endorsement and criticized the mayor\u2019s rejection of street vendor legislation backed by the City Council.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mayor Eric told NY1 he has a track record of stitching together a diverse group of New Yorkers<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>He then revealed he wants to add drug addicts to the list of people that medical professionals can involuntarily commit to hospital care, which would require sign off from the state Legislature<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani took aim at Adams\u2019 recent veto of legislation written to reduce penalties against street vendors, which was one of his first campaign promises<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cYou do not say you\u2019re going to govern right-leaning or left-leaning, you govern the people of the city,\u201d Adams said in an interview Friday while making the case to keep his job.<\/p>\n<p>Adams told NY1 he has a track record of stitching together a diverse group of New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think when you look at 2021 when I campaigned, I was able to build those coalitions. That\u2019s how I won. I became the mayor because I built coalitions with all groups,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/mamdani-viewed-favorably-by-46--of-city-voters-in-siena-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new poll shows<\/a> Adams holds just a 30% favorability to 58% unfavorability rating.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, he\u2019s more unpopular than opponents Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>Adams didn\u2019t rule out trying to appeal to Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is always a coalition of people in this city who care about quality of life issues and they want to have a place to raise their children and families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He then revealed he wants to add drug addicts to the list of people that medical professionals can involuntarily commit to hospital care, which would require sign-off from the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re under that influence, you don\u2019t know you need help often and we believe the same methodologies behind involuntary removal for severe mental health illness should be for drug use as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Richmond Hill, Queens, Mamdani weighed in on Adams\u2019 plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you focus on outcomes and look at recent studies around involuntary commitment, it starts to ask more questions about whether it presents the same solutions that we are told that it does,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani also welcomed new support from Queens Democratic Borough President Donovan Richards, who backed Adams in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to admit, when I saw him eat a gyro on the train, I was disgusted. I was like, \u2018This is not the New York way, man. \u2018It\u2019s almost like eating pizza with a fork,\u2019\u201d he joked, referencing one of Mamdani\u2019s campaign videos.<\/p>\n<p>Richards also appeared to issue a veiled warning to other top Democrats who have yet to endorse the party\u2019s nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is not the time for us to sit on the fence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t care about [whether] you\u2019re a Democrat or a Republican when you need your potholes filled,\u201d he added, perhaps asking voters to look past Mamdani\u2019s party affiliation and focus on his policy priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani also took aim at Adams\u2019 recent veto of legislation written to reduce penalties against street vendors \u2014 also one of his first campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he did with that veto, it harms business leaders and entrepreneurs across the city. And what is important to do is to take the actions that live up to the responsibility of the position, and that\u2019s not what he did,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p>City Council leaders have also pledged to override Adams\u2019 veto in an upcoming vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoping to boost his sagging poll numbers in his re-election campaign, Mayor Eric Adams appeared on NY1 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[13564,5229,13565,13567,7448,43432,9643,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-149255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2025-nyc-mayors-race","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-local-elections","12":"tag-app-top-stories","13":"tag-bernadette-hogan","14":"tag-decision-2025","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115035805056638480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}