The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced on Sunday that he is suspending his campaign for the mayor, just weeks after the observed elections.
Adams announced its decision in a Video in x.
The mayor, who ran as an independent, resisted the calls to previously abandon the opponents of the nominee Democrat Zohran Mamdani, who worried that he and the independent candidate, former governor Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primaries and postulates as independent, would divide the vote.
Adams has been surveying behind Mamdani, Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, arrives to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 26, 2025.
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ABC News previously reported that it is too late for Adams name to be removed from the ballot. His name will remain, like the Long Shot Jim Walden candidate, who also suspended his campaign and last week he supported Cuomo.
Adams’s decision follows an order on Friday of the Federal Judge of Manhattan who supervised the Criminal case of Adams.
The judge is agreed to add the city’s campaign finance board as a part interested in the issue of corruption now distracted. The CFB requested to be added so that it could review the case before deciding whether to grant coincidental funds to the ADAMS campaign.
The order of the judge who granted the application in clear to the mayor and his campaign advisors who would be unlikely to receive public money to match the almost $ 4 million that Adams has collected.
Adams was accused in September 2024 for five positions in an alleged long data conspiracy related to what prosecutors said they were inappropriate benefits, illegal campaign contributions and an cover -up attempt.
The charges against the mayor, including the charges of electronic fraud, conspiracy, bribery and request of a contribution of a foreign entity, were withdrawn against him in April by the United States Department of Justice in what his critics said he was a Quid Pro quo with the Trump administration.
Adams and the Department of Justice denied that there was a quid pro quo involved in the fall of the charges.
President Donald Trump’s advisors had been in contact with Adams to persuade him to leave the race and offered him positions in the administration, including an ambassador to Saudi Arabia, sources told ABC News.
Trump and Adams denied the reports of those meetings. However, Trump has expressed that candidates should leave to limit the number of challengers against Mamdani.
Adams said in his announcement that he could not continue his offer because he said that it was the speculation of the media and the funds retained by the CFB “have undermined my ability to raise the necessary funds for a serious campaign.”
“When I was chosen to serve as your mayor, I said these words: this campaign was never about me. They were the people of this city, of all the neighborhoods and background, that they had been left behind and believed that they would never put themselves up to date. This campaign was for the unattended, the marginalized, the abandoned and betrayed by the government,” Adams said in the video.
“Since then, it has been an honor to be your mayor. And I am proud to say that we took that victory four years ago and we turned it into action, which makes this city better for those who had failed the government.”
Adams also indicated that he will fulfill the rest of his mandate in office.
“Although this is the end of my re -election campaign, it is not the end of my public service. I will continue to fight for this city, as I have done for 40 years, from the day I joined the New York Police so that our streets are safer and our most fair systems,” he said.
Adams did not support any candidate for the mayor in his announcement.
Mamdani wrote in a statement that reacted to Adams withdrawal: “Donald Trump and his billionaire donors could determine the actions of Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo, but will not dictate the results of this election. New York deserves better than trade in a miserable politician, corrupt by another. Proud of”.
Cuomo said in a statement on Sunday that Adams’s choice to leave “was not easy, but I think he is sincere to put the well -being of New York City ahead of personal ambition.”
“We face the destructive extremist forces that would devastate our city through incompetence or ignorance, but it is not too late to stop them,” Cuomo wrote.
The former governor added: “Mayor Adams has a lot to be proud of in his achievements. Only in New York can a child raised in a home in Bushwick, who once worked as a broom child and an employee of the email room, will become mayor. Whatever differences that we can have, the story of Eric Adams is indenigible, a resilience, a resilience, a resilience, a resilience, a resilience, a resilience of this spirit, city”.
A SLIWA spokesman wrote: “Curtis Sliwa is the only candidate who can defeat Mamdani. Our team, our resources and our funds are unmatched. The most important thing is that we have the best solutions to help people who work to remain in New York City and feel safe.”
The City Council staff were informed of the mayor’s decision only a few moments before the campaign published the Adams statement. Adams gave no indication that he has a job aligned after leaving office. A source close to the mayor did not know that a job was offered.
ABC News Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.
