Mayor Adams’s campaign was left foundering after repeated scandals, a federal indictment and his courtship of President Trump.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he would abandon his foundering campaign for a second term, upending the race to lead the nation’s largest city just five weeks before Election Day.
In
a nearly nine-minute video message posted to social media, the mayor conceded that despite his best efforts, he could not see a path to re-election. He blamed “
continued media speculation about my departure” and a decision by the city’s Campaign Finance Board to deny him public matching funds for throttling his campaign.
Mr. Adams did not endorse one of his rivals. But he offered voters what appeared to be a veiled warning about Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and front-runner, and what he characterized as growing extremism in politics.
Mayor has had more of bad, mostly his own fault. He probably read the political tea leaves and knew he was going to lose. He was seen passing envelopes of cash to journalists in 2025.