{"id":214675,"date":"2025-09-10T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214675\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:08:11","slug":"eric-adams-is-in-it-to-win-it-against-diabolical-far-left-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214675\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams is in it to win it against ‘diabolical’\u00a0far-left Mamdani in NYC mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The polls say Mayor Adams<\/a> is a sure-fire loser in November and wall-to-wall reports have him dropping out of the race or leaving City Hall early to take a job in the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He tells me neither is true and that he has never spoken to the president about a job.<\/p>\n

My impression after a fast-paced interview with him Monday is that quitting and defeat truly are far from his mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will finish my term,\u201d he said emphatically, and insists he still has a chance at re-election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel strong and I\u2019m not giving up,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too early to throw in the towel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We were sitting in Gracie Mansion<\/a>, and the mayor\u2019s upbeat mood was a match for the bright, sunny day.<\/p>\n

He barely flinched when I asked what he would do differently if he could rewind the clock to 2022, when he took office.<\/p>\n

His quick answer came with conviction. <\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my appointments and hires,\u201d he said, \u201cI would have done differently, out of the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n

City Hall shake-up<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t mention names, but didn\u2019t have to. <\/p>\n

While shake-ups at City Hall and even the White House are common, the extent of top departures under Adams was unusual. <\/p>\n

The drip, drip of key members leaving, some under clouds of investigations, conveyed a sense of disorder.<\/p>\n

From the mayor\u2019s perspective, a greater problem was the web of lingering issues connected to COVID. He talks of how he spent a long time in \u201cmayor classes\u201d before and during his 2021 campaign<\/a>, meaning he felt prepared \u2014 \u201cbut COVID changed that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He lost people he assumed would take jobs and remembers telling his staff, many of whom were working 13 and 14 hours a day, \u201cWe still gotta move the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

He laughed at his own memory and said, \u201cHistory is going to be really kind to me, when you write your book on me!\u201d<\/p>\n

The city was still partially shut down, and some school reopenings were slow and contested.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I was worried about the learning gap growing, so I\u2019m just going to have to be criticized because we have to open all schools,\u201d he recalled feeling.<\/p>\n

He cited three big early problems: COVID, crime and the wild influx of asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n

Did he doubt his ability to do the job?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was not one day when I felt I couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n

He segued to another roadblock that complicated matters: \u201cI remember the day I was indicted. I left that court and went to a senior center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Life according to Adams goes like this: Keep moving because \u201c80% of things you believe are going to happen to you negatively are never going to materialize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I\u2019m my mama\u2019s child, and she never gave up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it\u2019s hard, I hear her voice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Indictment of system<\/p>\n

Mention of the federal indictment, connected mostly to donations for that first race, brought a laugh, and he said it taught him a great lesson, which he called \u201cthe trilogy\u201d of power.<\/p>\n

He listed mayors, the media and prosecutors last, which he likened to vultures.<\/p>\n

I agreed in his case. <\/p>\n

Damian Williams, the head of feds\u2019 Southern District when Adams was indicted, foolishly wrote an op-ed that made him look like a head-hunting amateur pol.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 plan to run for office was reportedly well-known among other prosecutors, some of whom scoffed at his naked ambition.<\/p>\n

Adams insists the prosecution, which the Trump administration dropped, was out of bounds. <\/p>\n

The case involved FBI agents seizing the mayor\u2019s electronic devices<\/a> and numerous leaks from prosecutors, which damaged the mayor\u2019s political standing.<\/p>\n

He believes he can still recover because he\u2019s been in the public eye, going back to his NYPD days, for nearly two generations and has a reservoir of trust and respect from many New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Which brought us to the elephant in the room: Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, the leader of the pack for the November election.<\/p>\n

Where, I asked, does he fit into the city? <\/p>\n

Adams answered with a litany of charges that made the most powerful and complete argument I have heard anyone make against the 33-year-old radical.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost New Yorkers don\u2019t fully understand how much damage he can do,\u201d Adams began.<\/p>\n

He said some state officials believe they could absorb the dislocations of a Mayor Mamdani, but he believes they don\u2019t know how much power a mayor has.<\/p>\n

While most mayors fight to retain control of city schools, Mamdani wants to turn it back to the Legislature. <\/p>\n

To Adams, that means he \u201cwants to give school control to Michael Mulgrew,\u201d the head of the teachers union.<\/p>\n

He next cites Mamdani\u2019s plan to decriminalize prostitution.<\/p>\n

Adams scoffs, saying: \u201cAs a cop, I remember seeing these little boys and girls, 18 and 19 years old, selling their bodies on street corners.\u201d<\/p>\n

He turns to Mamdani\u2019s pledge to empty Rikers Island<\/a>, saying: \u201cIt holds 7,400 of the most dangerous people in our city.\u201d <\/p>\n

Because of lenient courts, \u201cyou have to work really hard to be sent to Rikers now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018They hate families\u2019<\/p>\n

He is especially alarmed by Mamdani\u2019s handlers. <\/p>\n

He says of the Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>, \u201cThey hate families. This is their social experiment and there would be so much damage that it would take years for New York to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds another idea \u2014 Mamdani is making promises he knows he can\u2019t keep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not talking about a person who is not intelligent. He\u2019s diabolical.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows he can\u2019t do all this stuff, an increase in millionaires\u2019 tax, and Hochul said no. When he talks about rent freezes, he knows others are going to have to pay, so he can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams calls it a \u201csnake oil approach\u201d that aims to scare people and claims Mamdani is \u201cintentionally misleading people, and that angers me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor was just getting warmed up and moved to another concern \u2014 Mamdani\u2019s cadre of young voters. <\/p>\n

He believes a \u201csignificant portion\u201d are involved in the anti-Israel protests. <\/p>\n

He cited an infamous subway scene after the Hamas invasion two years ago where a group of thugs on a subway shouted, \u201cIf you\u2019re Jewish, get off this train.\u201d<\/p>\n

He believes critics of Israel make up a large proportion of Mamdani\u2019s base and cites the candidate\u2019s outrageous defense of \u201cglobalize the intifada.\u201d<\/p>\n

To Adams, that reflects a larger problem he sees in Mamdani supporters: \u201cThey are not American patriots.\u201d<\/p>\n

By way of comparison, he cited his Uncle Joe, who fought and died in Vietnam even though he didn\u2019t agree with much of America\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when the country called, he went to Vietnam and he served because he knew we have the greatest country on the globe,\u201d Adams said passionately.<\/p>\n

He believes many on the far left \u201cdon\u2019t want to wear the Team America\u201d jersey.<\/p>\n

He adds, \u201cIf you don\u2019t agree with them, they will curse you out, disrupt family dinners. They just have no respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, he\u2019s right. Which is why New Yorkers of common sense must band together to defeat Mamdani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The polls say Mayor Adams is a sure-fire loser in November and wall-to-wall reports have him dropping out…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13239,7824,40896,69,5289,12783,94845,5371,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,5257,1269,9641,74350,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5223,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-214675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-coronavirus","11":"tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eric-adams","14":"tag-fbi","15":"tag-gracie-mansion","16":"tag-kathy-hochul","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","24":"tag-nypd","25":"tag-opinion","26":"tag-polls","27":"tag-rikers-island","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-white-house","35":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115178275151969803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214675","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=214675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}