New York Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday, 28, that he ended his campaign for reelection. In a video released on social networks, Adams was proud of his achievements as mayor, including a fall in violent crimes. But he said that the “constant media speculation” about his future and the city’s campaign finance council decision to retain public funding for his reelection effort made it impossible to remain in the dispute.
“Despite everything we have achieved, I can’t continue my reelection campaign,” said Adams.
The Democrat’s decision to give up the race occurs days after he said he would remain in the dispute because New Yorkers do not “surrender.” The speculation that he could not reach the day of election was a year ago. Adams’s campaign was seriously injured by suspicion of his involvement in a federal bribery (now filed) and liberal anger at the good relationship between him and US President Donald Trump. He jumped the primary Democrat and entered the ballot as independent.
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In the video, Adams did not mention directly or endorsed any of the remaining candidates in the dispute. He also warned that “extremism is growing in our politics.” “Big changes are welcome and necessary, but beware of those who claim that the answer is to destroy the very system we have built over generations,” he said. “This is not a change, this is chaos. Instead, it urges voters to choose leaders not for what they promise, but for what they have delivered.”
Adams’s capitulation could potentially boost the campaign of former governor Andrew Cuomo, a centrist colleague who retracted himself as the only candidate potentially capable of beating the Democratic Party nominee, the member of the Zohran Mamdani State Assembly. It was not clear, however, if the number of Adams supporters would change their fidelity to Cuomo enough to make a difference.
Mamdani, who, at the age of 33, would be the youngest and most liberal mayor in the city in generations if elected, won Cuomo decisively in the primary Democrat, campaigning with the promise of trying to reduce the cost of living in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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Republican Curtis Sliwa also remains in the dispute, although his candidacy has been harmed by his own party; Trump in a recent interview called him “not exactly ideal.”
New York governor Kathy Hochul, who endorsed Mamdani, said in a statement after the mayor’s announcement that he was proud to have worked with Adams in the last four years and that he makes the city “better than inherited it.” Source: AP
*This content was translated with the aid of artificial intelligence tools and revised by the editorial team of Estadão.
