{"id":261893,"date":"2025-09-28T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261893\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:30:10","slug":"eric-adams-drops-out-of-new-york-city-mayoral-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261893\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday <\/strong>that he is dropping his third-party bid for re-election, narrowing the field for November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite all we\u2019ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign,\u201d Adams said in a video posted to X<\/a>. \u201cThe constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board\u2019s decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a nearly nine-minute video, Adams \u2014 who enjoyed strong ratings from New Yorkers early in his term but saw his standing plummet after being indicted on federal corruption charges and then seeing those charges dropped by the Trump administration \u2014 said he hoped New Yorkers “will see that despite the headlines and the innuendo, I always put you before me.”<\/p>\n

A source close to the mayor said that Adams\u2019 dropping out was “unfortunate,” noting that “his policies were best for this city.”<\/p>\n

The question now is how Adams’ move shapes the mayoral race going forward in the nation’s biggest city. <\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 announcement comes after weeks of speculation<\/a> that he could exit the race and help consolidate support behind former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is also running<\/a> a third-party bid for mayor against Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, a state legislator. Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the June Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

However, Adams\u2019 name will still be on ballots this fall, since he exited the race after a deadline to print them. And the limited public polling <\/a>on the possibility of Adams dropping out showed Cuomo benefitting but a critical mass of voters also still siding<\/a> with Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Those polls suggest that Cuomo’s best shot at defeating Mamdani comes in a one-on-one race. <\/p>\n

Adams has not been a major factor in the race for some time. The public polls have shown him running in a distant fourth place, with Mamdani staked to a double-digit lead ahead of Cuomo and then Sliwa, with Adams further behind.<\/p>\n

Adams urged his successor to “continue the work we started, lowering the cost of living, investing in quality of life and staying laser-focused on reducing crime and disorder through investments in policing, mental health, substance abuse care, homelessness services and community-based initiatives.”<\/p>\n

The mayor did not make an endorsement in the video, but Adams did appear to take a swipe at Mamdani, arguing that “extremism is growing in our politics.”<\/p>\n

“Too often, insidious forces use local government to advance divisive agendas with little regard for how it hurts everyday New Yorkers,” he said. “Major change is welcome and necessary, but beware of those who claim the answer [is] to destroy the very system we built together over generations. That is not change, that is chaos.”<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 decision is a full reversal from his position just days ago, when he declared in a social media post on X that he was \u201cnot going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the noise, all of the rumors \u2014 none of that matters,\u201d he said in the same post.<\/a> <\/p>\n

But Adams laid out a rationale for dropping out in a Saturday MSNBC interview<\/a>, in which he accused the media of sandbagging his campaign and lamented what he called \u201cbogus\u201d corruption charges against him. During a Sunday morning local radio appearance hours before dropping out, Adams focused exclusively on touting his administration\u2019s achievements on issues like sanitation.<\/p>\n

In an interview on “The Breakfast Club” that aired on Thursday, he suggested that reports of him considering dropping out or being offered other positions hurt his fundraising efforts. <\/p>\n

\u201cI answered that 101 times,\u201d Adams said when asked whether he would drop out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to finish this race,\u201d he added later, noting that he believed he had to win a court battle over campaign funds.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump told reporters he would like to see two candidates in the crowded election leave the race to boost the chances of defeating Mamdani, a progressive who trounced Cuomo in New York\u2019s Democratic primary in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see two people drop out and have it be one on one,\u201d Trump said at a White House dinner in early September. \u201cI think that\u2019s a race that could be won.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you can win unless you have one on one, because somehow he\u2019s gotten a little bit of a lead,\u201d Trump added. \u201cI don\u2019t like to see a communist become mayor, I will tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams was elected as a Democrat in 2021. But he decided earlier this year to seek re-election as an independent, amid cratering poll numbers in his party in the aftermath of his federal indictment and then the move by Trump\u2019s Department of Justice to drop those charges, arguing that it needed Adams\u2019 cooperation on the president\u2019s immigration and deportation agenda.<\/p>\n

Adams was indicted in September 2024 on federal charges, including bribery and campaign finance violations. The Department of Justice alleged<\/a> that he \u201cused his prominent positions in New York City government to obtain illegal campaign contributions and luxury travel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 announcement was first reported by the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that he is dropping his third-party bid for re-election, narrowing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-261893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115283350309175339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261893","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=261893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}