{"id":33548,"date":"2025-09-28T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/eric-adams-drops-out-of-the-new-york-mayors-race-weeks-ahead-of-the-election\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:01:16","slug":"eric-adams-drops-out-of-the-new-york-mayors-race-weeks-ahead-of-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/eric-adams-drops-out-of-the-new-york-mayors-race-weeks-ahead-of-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams drops out of the New York mayor&#8217;s race weeks ahead of the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68d974d41c1f80efbec475ee?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams holds a South Brooklyn Rally for re-election in September 2025.\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams attended a Brooklyn rally for reelection in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Nigro\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric Adams dropped out of New York City&#039;s mayoral race on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>The incumbent cited media speculation and lack of funding for his decision.<\/li>\n<li>Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, holds a significant lead and is widely expected to win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eric Adams has dropped out of New York City&#039;s mayoral race.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent mayor announced his departure in an eight-minute video shared to X on Sunday, saying his campaign was hindered by a lack of funding and media attention.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Only in America. Only in New York.<br \/>Thank you for making my story a reality. pic.twitter.com\/efHuyBnITJ<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) September 28, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Yet, despite all we&#039;ve achieved, I cannot continue my reelection campaign,&quot; Adams said. &quot;The constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board&#039;s decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Factoring into his decision was also likely the sizable polling lead held by his main opponent, Zohran Mamdani, who is running as a Democratic Socialist. Mamdani is widely expected to win in November.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani has campaigned on freezing rents and raising taxes on the wealthy in New York City, roiling the financial capital of the world. He has also said he doesn&#039;t believe billionaires should exist, which was an eyebrow-raising comment for a candidate running for mayor of a city that is home to the world&#039;s largest number of billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>In his video message, Adams appeared to take a parting shot a Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;New Yorkers should be suspicious of any politician or political movement that claims we must wholesale destroy the systems we created together over generations in order to usher in a new, untested order led by self-styled saviors,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Three candidates now remain in New York City&#039;s mayoral race: former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani, and Republican activist Curtis Sliwa. Election Day is November 4, but early voting begins on October 25.<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: September 28, 2025 \u2014 An earlier version of this story misstated Andrew Cuomo as a former mayor of New York City. He was the former governor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Eric Adams attended a Brooklyn rally for reelection in September 2025. Michael Nigro\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images Eric Adams dropped out of New York City&#039;s mayoral race on Sunday. The incumbent cited media speculation and lack of funding for his decision. Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, holds a significant lead and is widely expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}