{"id":203853,"date":"2025-09-06T02:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:29:21","slug":"eric-adams-says-hes-staying-in-new-york-mayoral-race-amid-dropout-talk-eric-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203853\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams says he\u2019s staying in New York mayoral race amid dropout talk | Eric Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City mayor, Eric Adams<\/a>, announced on Friday that he is going to stay in the fall\u2019s highly anticipated mayoral race, just days after reports that Donald Trump was encouraging him to drop out in order to help fellow independent candidate Andrew Cuomo gain more votes against the frontrunner, the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am running for re-election,\u201d Adams confirmed to reporters during a news conference outside the Gracie Mansion mayoral residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been so much speculation, communications, announcements of what I\u2019m doing, no matter what I have stated over and over again publicly. So I want to be clear with you. I am in this race, and I\u2019m the only one that can beat Mamdani,\u201d Adams remarked.<\/p>\n

The announcement came as <\/strong>the US president \u2013 a native of New York<\/a> City \u2013 had reportedly been pushing Adams, who has been polling in the single digits, to ditch his campaign for re-election. Trump had reportedly even floated a potential ambassador post in Saudi Arabia to Adams in order to convince him to drop out.<\/p>\n

Adams denied<\/a> those claims, saying on Thursday: \u201cI have never been promised a job.\u201d At his renewed campaign pitch on Friday, Adams did not take questions from reporters.<\/p>\n

He instead <\/strong>pointed at a mayoral polo shirt and said he intended to wear it \u201canother four years\u201d. He also insulted his rivals as \u201cspoiled brats\u201d who were not working-class New Yorkers like he and voters were.<\/p>\n

Sources told ABC News<\/a> that Trump\u2019s team had been hearing from Republican donors in the city pleading with Trump aides to get involved in the New York City mayoral race, citing fears that Mamdani<\/a>, who has had a commanding lead in polling, could win the November election.<\/p>\n

There is a suggestion that Cuomo could consolidate enough support to challenge Mamdani if Adams \u2013 who won the 2021 race to become mayor of one of the world\u2019s biggest cities as a Democrat \u2013 and the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, were to drop out of the race. The New York Times reported that there have been talks in the Trump administration about also finding a job for their fellow Republican Sliwa to get him out of the race.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s team on Friday issued a statement saying: \u201cZohran\u2019s running to serve New York, not do the bidding of an authoritarian president and his billionaire friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cCity hall should belong to the people \u2013 that\u2019s what our city deserves and what Zohran\u2019s campaign is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Friday that he is going to stay in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203854,"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-203853","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\/115155000639582859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203853","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=203853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}