{"id":261677,"date":"2025-09-28T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261677\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:19:14","slug":"eric-adams-leaves-door-open-to-dropping-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-in-tone-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261677\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams leaves door open to dropping out of NYC mayoral race in tone shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Eric Adams left the door open to dropping his re-election campaign <\/a>in a new interview \u2014 just weeks after definitely insisting that he was staying in the race.<\/p>\n

In a sit-down on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cPoliticsNation,\u201d host the Rev. Al Sharpton asked Adams if he\u2019d confirm there was \u201cno circumstance\u201d under which he\u2019d withdraw from the crowded November election.<\/p>\n

Eric Adams has left the door open to dropping out of the NYC mayoral race in a sudden tone shift from his previous stance. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I can\u2019t say that,\u201d Adams replied during the Saturday interview.<\/p>\n

Adams, who is struggling with high public disapproval ratings and placing fourth in polls, said he was conferring with his staff and vowed that he\u2019ll make the \u201cright decision\u201d for New York City.<\/p>\n

The incumbent mayor, who is running as an independent, expressed frustration over the difficulty of raising campaign funds<\/a> with rumors swirling about him dropping his re-election bid and taking a job, including in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

He has swatted down the rumors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been sitting down with my team, having our pathways, finding out how we get the money into the coffers to do the commercials, to do the mailers, to pay for our team and staff,\u201d he told Sharpton.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to make the right decision,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI\u2019ll make the right decision for the city of New York, a city I love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 answers\u00a0contrasted with the defiant tone he took\u00a0<\/a>a few weeks ago, when he called rival and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo \u201ca snake and a liar\u201d who was maneuvering to force the city\u2019s second black mayor out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in this race, and I\u2019m the only one who can beat Mamdani. Andrew has had a career of pushing black candidates out of races,\u201d he said outside Gracie Mansion on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n

Sharpton, assessing Adams\u2019 answers, said the fate of his campaign was up in the air.<\/p>\n

Adams previously stated he\u2019s the only candidate who can beat socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani. Stefano Giovannini<\/p>\n

President Trump believes Cuomo would have a better shot at beating Mamdani. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was not all in and he was not all out,\u201d Sharpton told The Post Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up in the air. He has not closed the door to staying or leaving. A lot of is dependent on he is able to raise the money\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams, during the interview, blamed the media for his predicament.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIf someone constantly reports, even when you say otherwise, that you\u2019re leaving the race the next day, you\u2019re leaving the race the next day, you lose your funders and your donors. And so it\u2019s been a real challenge for me to raise the money that I need to run for office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the real agenda to cover me the same way you are covering the other candidates or to undermine my campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump said he\u2019d like to see two candidates drop out of the race<\/a> to have the best one-on-one shot to defeat socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. He believes Cuomo would have a better shot.<\/p>\n

Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa said he is not leaving the race.<\/p>\n

Adams campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro claimed the mayor didn\u2019t say anything new on the Sharpton show that he hadn\u2019t said before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams left the door open to dropping his re-election campaign in a new interview \u2014 just…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5289,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-261677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-eric-adams","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115282835275091082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261677","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=261677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}