{"id":197890,"date":"2025-09-03T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197890\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:56:11","slug":"eric-adams-denies-he-will-exit-new-york-city-mayoral-race-as-trump-allies-weigh-field-clearing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197890\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams denies he will exit New York City mayoral race as Trump allies weigh field-clearing options"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n New York City Mayor Eric Adams forcefully denied rumors that he will abandon his reelection campaign if the Trump administration offers him a job.\n <\/p>\n

\n According to two sources familiar with the conversations, aides to President Donald Trump<\/a> have floated the idea of offering Adams a job in the administration as part of an effort to clear the field ahead of the general election in November with the aim of blocking Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani from becoming the city\u2019s next mayor.\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked about the possibility during an unrelated press conference in the Bronx on Wednesday, Adams said he had no plans to exit the race.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI have a job.<\/strong> I\u2019m running for my reelection.<\/strong> I am still doing that, and I\u2019m looking forward to getting reelected,\u201d Adams told reporters.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n The New York Times was first to report the discussions, which according to the Times also include an effort to find a job for the Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.\n <\/p>\n

\n A narrower field would be welcome news for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running in the race as an independent after losing to Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist, by 12 points in the June Democratic primary<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n A spokesperson for the Cuomo campaign declined to comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n News that Trump is seeking to influence the mayoral race in New York City could also be helpful for the front-runner. During a hastily scheduled press conference in Manhattan, Mamdani accused Trump of trying to undermine his hometown\u2019s democratic process, saying a job offer for Adams confirms the president is hoping to elevate Cuomo as the leading alternative.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe reason that so many New Yorkers are fed up with politics as they know it is because of news like this,\u201d Mamdani told reporters. \u201cBackroom deals, corrupt agreements, all of which serve to increase the sense of disaffection and despair as it pertains to how people feel about politics across this country.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked whether the possibility of facing a two-way contest in November concerned him, Mamdani said he was confident he would win in the general election.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t care about who we will face in November. We\u2019ll beat them all,\u201d Mamdani added.\n <\/p>\n

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\n John Catsimatidis, a Republican New York supermarket magnate who is a friend of Trump and has warned Mamdani\u2019s candidacy would be dangerous to the city said he believes Trump \u201cdoes not want a socialist to be mayor of New York.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cNew York is the capitalist capital of the world and should continue to be that,\u201d Catsimatidis told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cuomo, who has denied he spoke to Trump about the mayoral race in recent weeks or that he has enlisted his help in clearing the field has said he believes he would have a better chance at defeating Mamdani if it\u2019s a two–<\/strong>way race rather than the current crowded field of candidates that also includes <\/strong>Sliwa, a New York City fixture who made his name in the late 1970\u2019s as a citizen vigilante and founder of the Guardian Angels.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a statement, Sliwa told CNN he has no plans to leave the race.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe White House has not contacted me, and I\u2019m not interested in a job with the White House,\u201d Sliwa said. \u201cMy focus is right here in New York. I\u2019m the only candidate on a major party line who can defeat Mamdani, and I\u2019m committed to carrying this fight through to Election Day. The people of New York City deserve a mayor who truly cares.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Speculation about Adams\u2019 future has been swirling for months. This week, an undisclosed trip to Florida that Adams and his team initially described as being \u201cpersonal\u201d in nature quickly took a different tone after Adams said he met with the mayor of Miami during his visit along with \u201cseveral political figures in Florida.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the office of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.\n <\/p>\n

\n Todd Shapiro, a spokesperson for Adams\u2019 campaign denied that the mayor had spoken with the president about the mayoral race.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cMayor Adams has not met with Donald Trump \u2014 don\u2019t believe the noise. He is not dropping out of the race,\u201d Shapiro said in a statement. \u201cThe Mayor is fully committed to winning this election, with millions of New Yorkers preparing to cast their votes. His record is clear: crime is down, jobs are up, and he has consistently stood up for working families. Mayor Adams is focused on building on that progress and earning four more years to continue delivering for the people of New York.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Adams\u2019 reelection campaign has been hobbled by ongoing corruption accusations facing some of his closest allies. Last month, a former top advisor to the mayor was indicted on charges of corruption and bribery.\n <\/p>\n

\n Adams, who faced his own corruption and bribery scandal earlier this year and was charged by federal prosecutors in a wide-ranging scheme accusing him of soliciting donations from foreign nationals, was cleared from charges after Trump\u2019s Department of Justice directed prosecutors<\/a> in the US Attorneys\u2019 office in New York to dismiss the case. He continues to deny any wrongdoing.\n <\/p>\n

\n The episode has hung over Adams since, with both Cuomo and Mamdani saying it was part of a deal Adams made with the Trump administration that would guarantee the city\u2019s cooperation with Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.\n <\/p>\n

\n Adams, who routinely declines to publicly criticize Trump, has said he prefers to have a working relationship with the administration rather than an adversarial one.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pressed about whether he would consider leaving office for another job, Adams boasted about his prospects, saying he\u2019s been getting job offers for more than a year.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI have been getting calls from private industries, from boards, from educational institutions I have been getting offers,\u201d Adams said. \u201cTo say would you take a job in an administration, or would I take it somewhere else, that is hypothetical. I am running for office, I\u2019m going to finish doing that I got work to do, I have more ribbons to cut before I finish up this term.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link New York City Mayor Eric Adams forcefully denied rumors that he will abandon his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-197890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115142602464839480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197890","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=197890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}