{"id":225185,"date":"2025-09-14T03:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225185\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:30:39","slug":"as-mayor-adams-tours-the-bronx-he-blasts-reports-hes-considering-dropping-out-of-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225185\/","title":{"rendered":"As Mayor Adams tours the Bronx, he blasts reports he’s considering dropping out of the race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Adams<\/a> barnstormed the Bronx on Friday, hitting five campaign stops in a few hours, presenting himself as a potent candidate<\/a> for reelection even as his campaign has acknowledged he\u2019s weighing the possibility of dropping out of the race.<\/p>\n

Adams<\/a> has entertained conversations about leaving the race to pursue jobs in the Trump administration or in the private sector in recent weeks, the Daily News has previously reported, and Adams\u2019 top advisor Frank Carone<\/a> told The News on Thursday the campaign planned to commission an internal poll<\/a> that will help guide that decision.<\/p>\n

\"MayorMayor Eric Adams makes a campaign stop at the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Center Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 in the Bronx New York, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

But on Friday, Adams said the polling wasn\u2019t to determine whether he\u2019d stay in the race<\/a>, but that he\u2019s surveying voters to figure out the \u201cright messaging\u201d for his campaign<\/a>. The mayor also claimed that fellow independent candidate Andrew Cuomo<\/a> is behind news reports that he was having conversations about taking a job with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m concerned about is the undermining of my campaign, all these rumors, all of these lies,\u201d he said heading into a senior center in Concourse Village. \u201cFolks had me going to Saudi Arabia, they had me going to HUD, they had me going to the Yankee game. They had me going to Washington on Monday. I mean, why don\u2019t we start reporting the truth? I\u2019m campaigning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MayorMayor Eric Adams makes a campaign stop at the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Center Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 in the Bronx New York, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The mayor claimed that the churn of news around his possible exit from the race resulted in three fundraisers for his campaign being cancelled. Adams also slammed the media and the city\u2019s Campaign Finance Board, which has repeatedly denied him matching funds due to issues raised by his corruption indictment, which was dismissed by Trump\u2019s administration as part of a controversial deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfair. It\u2019s not right, and you\u2019re not doing it to any other candidate [except] for me,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

During his Friday swing, the mayor visited several spots in the South Bronx, including a mosque, the Yankee Stadium subway stop and a center for nonviolence.<\/p>\n

At the senior center, Adams touted his record to the crowd of around a hundred seniors and stopped to snap selfies with smiling women. The mayor told the crowd there that the \u201cnumber one thing\u201d he hears when out and about in the five boroughs is \u201cGod bless you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MayorMayor Eric Adams makes a campaign stop at the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Center Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 in the Bronx New York, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I want to tell you this, God has blessed me. God has blessed me because my story is your story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the mosque, speaking to a group of dozens of men, he touted his travels to Africa and said he\u2019s stood with Muslim New Yorkers for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a new friend brothers. I\u2019m an old friend, a friend that has been consistent throughout the years, and so the Muslim that\u2019s running for mayor, ask him, where has he been?\u201d Adams said of opponent Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim and the Democratic mayoral nominee favored to win November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

With the election in just over seven weeks, the mayor is facing pressure from those opposed to Mamdani<\/a> to step out of the race in order to pave the way for Cuomo to challenge Mamdani head-to-head.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they need to have one candidate,\u201d President Trump<\/a> said on Fox & Friends on Friday. \u201cAnd it would look to me like Cuomo, frankly, is leading the other two.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference in Brooklyn, Cuomo dismissed the polling proposal floated by Adams\u2019 campaign as redundant, noting all public surveys are already showing the incumbent with little apparent path to victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother poll?\u201d Cuomo scoffed. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a poll, is that what it is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 polling numbers have been consistently showed him landing in last place behind even Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, with several placing him in single digits.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, he is only serving to be a spoiler, and every day he stays in the race he continues to be a spoiler and help Mamdani,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cHe can continue to try to get a job in the Trump administration, maybe he does, maybe he doesn\u2019t, that\u2019s up to him, but he\u2019s not a viable candidate and all he\u2019s doing is help elect Mamdani,\u201d the ex-governor added.<\/p>\n

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