New York City\u2019s Asian-American community rallied behind Mayor Eric Adams Friday \u2014 slamming socialist challenger Zohran Mamdani for being too radical.<\/p>\n
More than 100 Asian American community, civic and business leaders gathered in Confucius Plaza in Chinatown to back the incumbent, who is running for a second term as an independent in the November election.<\/p>\n
\u201cI say I support Democrats. I don\u2019t support socialists,\u201d local Democratic district leader James Yu told the crowd, swiping at Mamdani, the party\u2019s nominee for mayor.<\/p>\n
The Asian-American community is rallying behind Mayor Eric Adams while calling out Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. William Farrington<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s running in the wrong place,\u201d Yu said about the left-wing Queens state Assemblyman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe should run for mayorship in Havana, Cuba \u2013 not in New York. In Nicaragua or Caracas, Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams also took a veiled swipe at the frontrunner, as he touted his record on public safety just a day after racking up endorsements<\/a> from a slate of Big Apple law enforcement unions.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to support the police while others want criminals to come back on our streets and harm us,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n \u201cI want criminals to be made and serve their time in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n The mayor appeared to be referencing recently resurfaced comments <\/a>by Mamdani in which the lefty lawmaker in 2020 questioned the \u201cpurpose\u201d of prisons and jails and called for police not to respond to domestic violence calls<\/a>.<\/p>\n Civic and business leaders claim Mamdani is too radical, while Democratic district leader James Yu said, \u201cI say I support Democrats. I don\u2019t support socialists.\u201d ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/p>\n Mamdani supports creating a $1 billion Department of Community Safety as part of his mayoral campaign platform. <\/p>\n The new agency would take over certain responsibilities away from the NYPD, such as responding to 911 calls involving homeless or troubled individuals.<\/p>\n Adams, a former NYPD captain, will face Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and independent lawyer Jim Walden in addition to Mamdani in the November general election.<\/p>\n While Hizzoner raked in an impressive $1.5 million<\/a> for his war chest in recent weeks, the latest polling has him barely cracking into the double digits and trailing in fourth place.<\/a><\/p>\n And while Adams has also been earning new endorsements, he lost one from Councilman James Gennaro, a Queens Democrat, on Friday.<\/p>\n Adams also criticized Mamdani, as he has racked up endorsements from law enforcement unions across the city. William Farrington<\/p>\n Gennaro had announced his support for Adams on July 7 but rescinded his backing in a 1 a.m. Facebook post noting that no one from the mayor\u2019s re-election campaign had reached out or even featured the endorsement on their website.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI can only deduce that the Adams campaign does not want my endorsement, or at least not at this time. I have no idea what they\u2019re thinking because they have not spoken to me,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n The mayor addressed the snafu in a press gaggle earlier in the day.<\/p>\n \u201cI reached out to the councilperson, and we will communicate, you know, you know. What\u2019s different from me and the other candidates \u2013\u00a0 I have a day job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Asian-American community rallied behind Mayor Eric Adams Friday \u2014 slamming socialist challenger Zohran Mamdani for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,32457,5289,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-74042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chinatown","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114877134727894020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74042","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=74042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}