In the race for New York City mayor, things seem to be heating up between incumbent Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n
The independent candidates took aim at each other Sunday about their pasts.<\/p>\n
Adams and Cuomo go on the offensive \u00a0<\/p>\n
Parades were the backdrop as Adams and Cuomo engaged in a war of words.<\/p>\n
At the Bronx Dominican Parade, the mayor called out Cuomo for stepping down as governor in 2021<\/a>, when he was investigated for sexual harassment allegations.<\/p>\n Adams drew from his experience with now-dismissed federal corruption charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I hung in there. I made a commitment to the city, that I was gonna serve as their mayor. He did not. He abandoned the state, and he stepped down from his role and his responsibility,” Adams said.<\/p>\n Cuomo, who was grand marshal at this year’s Colombian Parade in Queens, fired back.<\/p>\n “During his personal strife, he went and made a deal with President Trump to save himself at the cost of New Yorkers, and he put himself over the interest of New Yorkers,” Cuomo said.<\/p>\n Adams referenced the Department of Justice’s lawsuit last week against the city over its sanctuary policies<\/a>, saying, “You don’t make deals with someone you eventually get sued by.”<\/p>\n Cuomo said Adams put himself over New Yorkers by meeting with Trump before his corruption case was dropped<\/a>.<\/p>\n “He turned his back on New Yorkers,” Cuomo said. “New Yorkers will never forget that.”<\/p>\n Latest poll sees both trailing Zohran Mamdani<\/p>\n