{"id":198032,"date":"2025-09-03T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:11:12","slug":"adams-denies-being-offered-trump-job-in-exchange-for-quitting-mayoral-race-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198032\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams denies being offered Trump job in exchange for quitting mayoral race | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Adams, the embattled mayor of New York, has denied having conversations with Donald Trump<\/a> about being given a government job in exchange for dropping his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n

Politico reported<\/a> on Wednesday that Adams has been offered a position at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, citing a person with direct knowledge of the offer. The mayor met with the president\u2019s team during his visit to Florida on Monday, according to the person.<\/p>\n

The New York Times also reported<\/a> that advisers to Donald Trump \u201chave discussed the possibility\u201d of giving Adams a position in an attempt to thwart the political ambitions of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic socialist who is currently the frontrunner to be elected mayor in November.<\/p>\n

According to the Times, \u201cintermediaries\u201d for Trump have spoken to \u201cassociates\u201d of Adams about leaving the race. Adams, who has proved to be deeply unpopular among New York Democratic voters and is running as an independent candidate, is trailing Mamdani in the polls, and is draining support from former New York governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, also running as an independent.<\/p>\n

There is a suggestion that if Adams, a centrist Democrat, and the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, were to drop out of the race, Cuomo could consolidate enough support to challenge Mamdani. The New York Times reported that there have been talks in the Trump administration<\/a> about also finding a job for Sliwa to get him out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cMayor Adams has made it clear that he will not respond to every rumor that comes up,\u201d said Todd Shapiro, a spokesperson for Adams, told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has had no discussions with, nor has he met with, President Donald Trump regarding the mayoral race. The mayor is fully committed to winning this election, with millions of New Yorkers preparing to cast their votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis 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<\/p>\n

Sliwa told Politico he had not spoken to the White House and would not want a job anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not been contacted by the White House, and I\u2019m not interested in a job with the White House,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\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<\/p>\n

Mamdani, meanwhile, has been keen to underline his rivals\u2019 associations with Trump, who is deeply unpopular in true-blue New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump\u2019s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cNew Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who\u2019s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday a poll found Adams with 9% of the vote in the election \u2013 Mamdani was at 42%, Cuomo 26% and Sliwa 17%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Adams, the embattled mayor of New York, has denied having conversations with Donald Trump about being given…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198033,"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-198032","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\/115142897450541207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198032","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=198032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}