Eric Adams says he’s staying in New York mayoral race amid dropout talk | Eric Adams

New York mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that he was going to stay in the highly anticipated town hall race, just a few days after Donald Trump encourages him to abandon to help the independent candidate Andrew Cuomo to gain more votes against the frontrunner, the Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani.

“I present myself to re -elect,” said Adams to journalists at a press conference outside the Maire Mansion mayor.

“There have been so much speculation, communications, announcements of what I do, no matter what I have declared many times publicly. So I want to be clear with you. I am in this race, and I am the only one to be able to beat Mamdani,” said Adams.

The announcement came as The American president – from New York – would have pushed Adams, who surveyed figures, to abandon his campaign to re -elect. Trump would have even launched a position of potential ambassador to Saudi Arabia in Adams to convince him to abandon.

Adams denied these statements, saying Thursday: “I have never been promised a job.” Friday, during its campaign renewal, Adams did not respond to journalists.

Rather he Pointed on a mayor’s polo shirt and said he intended to wear him “another four years”. He also insulted his rivals as “spoiled frogs” who were not New Yorkers in the working class like him and the voters.

Sources have told ABC News that Trump’s team had heard republican donors from the city by pleading with Trump collaborators to get involved in the New York town hall race, quoting fears that Mamdani, who took a dominant advance in the survey, could win the November elections.

There is a suggestion that Cuomo could consolidate enough support to challenge Mamdani Si Adams – who won the 2021 race to become mayor of one of the largest cities in the world as a Democrat – and the republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, was to abandon the race. The New York Times reported that there had been conferences in the Trump administration to also find a job for their republican colleague Sliwa to get him out of the race.

Friday, the Mamdani team published a statement saying: “Zohran’s race to serve New York, not calling for an authoritarian president and his billionaire friends.

“The town hall should belong to the people – this is what our city deserves and what Zohran’s countryside is.”