Day: September 28, 2025

Eric Adams will officially be a one-term mayor.

Hizzoner announced on Sunday, according to multiple published reports, that he is suspending his independent re-election campaign. The campaign had seemingly slowed to a crawl in recent days after being repeatedly denied public campaign financing and polling in last place for weeks in the four-way race. 

“It’s been an honor to be your mayor,” Adams said in a video announcement, according to a New York Post report, which cited a transcript of a video the Adams campaign is due to release. “I know I cannot continue my campaign … “I strongly encourage whoever takes over City Hall to continue what we’ve done.”

Adams’ withdrawal came after an MSNBC interview with Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday in which the mayor refused to commit to staying in the race, saying he would soon “make the right decision for the city of New York.”

The bombshell announcement changes the complexion of the NYC mayoral race, effectively making it a three-person contest between Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Polls have had Mamdani ahead, but without majority support among voters.

With Adams now out of the picture, Cuomo has the opportunity to consolidate support and gain ground on Mamdani — as both Adams and Cuomo had largely courted moderate and independent voters. But with Sliwa still in the race, recent polls suggest the impact on the final outcome of the contest could be minimal. 

The tremors of this political earthquake began earlier this month when The New York Times first reported that the Trump administration had approached both Adams and Sliwa with job offers to get both candidates out of the race. It seemed to reflect the president’s wishes for the mayoral race; Trump said he preferred the contest to be “a one-on-one contest” between Mamdani, whom he disparaged as a “communist,” and another competitor.

Adams repeatedly denied those reports; at a hastily-called press conference at Gracie Mansion on Sept. 5, the mayor insisted he would stay in the race to the very end, charging that he was the only one in the field who could beat Mamdani. 

The president’s advisers reportedly also offered Sliwa a job, but the Republican nominee has said he was not contacted by the White House and would not take a post in the administration if offered one.

Mamdani, meanwhile, has charged that Cuomo has been actively working with the president to better his position in the race. Cuomo denied the accusations and, on Thursday, said he did not want Trump’s help — but that Adams’ and Sliwa’s decision to remain in the race was ultimately up to each candidate.

Adams’ announcement ends a campaign that began in the summer after the incumbent mayor stayed out of the Democratic primary. His popularity tanked in recent months following a corruption indictment a year and two days ago that the Trump Justice Department had dropped earlier this year under dubious circumstances. 

In most polls, Adams had been lagging far behind Mamdani, and even behind Sliwa, gaining in some cases only single-digit support from voters.

Adams was the second Black mayor of New York City when he took office in 2022. Like the first Black mayor, David Dinkins, his time at Gracie Mansion will be confined to just one four-year term.

Though Adams is now out of the race, his name will remain on the ballot in the Nov. 4 general election, as the deadline for removing names has since passed.

This is a developing story; check with amNY.com for further updates.

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