New York City Mayor Eric Adams abandons his reelection campaign

New York — New York City mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that he is ending his campaign to re -election.

In a video clip on social media, Adams proudly spoke about his accomplishments as a mayor, including a decrease in a violent crime. But he said that “the ongoing media speculation” about its future and a decision of the campaign to finance the campaign in the city to block public financing from efforts to re -election, made it impossible to stay in the race.

“Despite everything we have achieved, I cannot continue my campaign to re -election,” Adams said.

Democrats’s decision in one period to abandon the race comes days after his insistence repeatedly that it will remain in the competition, saying that the New York residents do not surrender. ”

But speculation that he would not reach the election day was rampant for a year. The Adams campaign was seriously injured by the issue of federal bribery that was not now known and a liberal anger over his warm relationship with President Donald Trump. The democratic preliminary elections exceeded and obtained the poll as an independent.

Adams does not submit any leakage approvals

In the video, Adams did not directly mention or support any of the remaining candidates in the race, but he warned of “Ghadila forces” using the local ruling to “submit divisional business schedules.”

“The great change is welcome and necessary, but beware of those who claim the answer (is) to destroy the system that we have created over the generations,” he said. “This does not change, and this is chaos. Instead, I urge leaders to choose leaders not what they are preparing, but with what they have provided.

Adams’s surrender is likely to provide an elevator for the campaign of former state governor Andrew Como, a colleague in the middle who portrayed himself as the only candidate who is likely to overcome the Democratic Party candidate, Zahran Mamdani.

It was unclear, though, whether the Adams supporters were enough to turn their loyalty to Como to make a difference.

Mamdani, who, at the age of 33, will be the youngest mayor in the city and the most liberal in generations if elected, defeated Komo decisively in the democratic introductory elections through his campaign to promise to reduce the cost of living in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

Republican Cortis is still in the race, although his candidacy has been undermined from inside his party; Trump described him in an interview with him recently as “not exactly the time of peak.”

New York Governor Cathy Hochol, who has supported Mamdani, said in a statement after the mayor’s announcement that she was proud to work with Adams over the past four years, and that he left the city “better than he inherited.”

Approximate offer in the polls

Opinion polls in early September explain the challenges of Adams. A poll conducted by the New York Times, the University of Siena and another from the University of Quinnibics, potential voters in favor of Mamdani, showed Komo, where Selio and Adams lags backward.

The Quinnipiac survey suggested that the gap between Mamdani and Cuomo can narrow if Adams comes out. The Times/Ceena poll suggested that if Adams and Cealca withdraw, Mamdani’s feature on Komo can shrink more.

Nevertheless, Sliwa repeatedly insisted that it will not resign under any circumstances.

In recent weeks, Trump administration intermediaries interested in banning Mamdani Road have come to victory by making him in an individual match with Komo, they approached Adams to see if he could be persuaded outside the competition to offer a government job.

Amid reports on these discussions, Adams called a press conference where he pledged to continue running and mocked Komo and Mamadani as “spoiled naughty”. Later, Adams went further on social media, describing Komo as “a liar and a snake.”

The indictment overwhelms progress

Adams, 65, is the mayor of the second black city. The former New York City Police chief and President of Brooklyn Boro, took office in 2022 and promised to rid the crime and revitalize the city by signing “Swagger” while recovering from the Koronaf virus.

On the issue of his signature, he succeeded. The crime rates that went up to the top after Covid-19 hit the city to prenatal levels, although it is unclearly the relationship of Adams’s policies.

But Adams’s focus on reducing crime and turmoil has overwhelmed him, over and over again, through rotating scandals, corruption investigations and lawsuits that claimed its spread on the highest levels of the city government.

Over a period of weeks of weeks last year, the Police Commissioner, School Adviser and several municipal deputies resigned in the wake of a series of federal raids on their homes. No one faced criminal charges.

After that, in late September, the Federal Public Prosecutors brought the concerns of fraud and bribery against Adams himself, saying that before the contributions of the illegal campaign and highly declining travel discounts from a Turkish official and others in exchange for accelerating the opening of the diplomatic building in Türkiye, among other preferences.

Trump interferes

Adams denied committing any violations and pledged to stay in office while he was fighting in court. But he began to speak warmly about Trump, who was seen as a growing chance to restore the White House. Trump defended media surroundings, urged his party to alleviate the speech against the Republic, and refrain from criticizing him as well as largely stopped promoting the Trump Democratic Division campaign, Kamala Harris.

After Trump’s victory, Adams met with Caesar border Trump, Thomas Human, and pledged to cooperate with the city with some aspects of the immigration campaign in the new administration.

Then, in February, the Ministry of Justice in Trump ordered the Federal Prosecutors in New York to drop the charges against Adams so that the mayor could help in the immigration agenda of the Republican President.

The extraordinary intervention started in a new round of turmoil in the city hall and the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Manhattan, with some of the closest allies of Adams, indicating that he concluded a deal with the White House for his freedom.

Adams announced that he would exceed the democratic introductory elections in June, but will remain in the race.

Summer does not bring any comfort

Since his return to the campaign this summer, Adams, who describes himself as “completely incomplete”, has found again surrounded by a scandal.

In late August, his former former adviser – who held a volunteer position on the campaign – was charged with new bribery. Another former assistant from the campaign was removed after the potato chips bag is delivered full of criticism to a local correspondent.

In the last weeks of his campaign, he rejected escalating calls to bend to give Komo a better shot in Mamdani beating.

Adams recently said: “History will be nice with me when I am outside the political lights 10 or 15 years from now, and they look and say: You know what? We must give this man his entitlement.” “This is what I fight for.”