NYC Mayor Eric Adams Running as Independent in Next Election
“I firmly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled at by the extremists on the far left or the far right…”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced he will run as an independent in the next mayoral race.
Adams has been involved in a corruption case for the past few years. A federal judge dismissed the case against him with prejudice, meaning the DOJ cannot resurrect it using the same evidence.
Adams said the corruption case made it impossible for him to start a primary campaign.
That is why Adams will run as an independent:
But I’m not a quitter. I’m a New Yorker. And that is why today, although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forego the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.
I firmly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled at by the extremists on the far left or the far right, but instead those rooted in the common middle, the place with the vast majority of New Yorkers are firmly planted.
Adams also stressed the charges against him were bogus:
I know that the accusations leveled against me may have shaken your confidence in me and that you may rightly have questions about my conduct. And let me be clear. Although the charges against me were false, I trusted people I should not have and I regret that.
— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) April 3, 2025
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Another Bmale tired of the momma welfare system??
welcome to the club
Entertaining to see a black democrat complain about lawfare.
He may well be at least border-line corrupt, but the court was correct, it’s not justice or good practice to allow selective prosecution either initially or held over an office holder for future use.
Running as an independent? Why half-step? Be a man. Go all the way and be a Republican!
He actually once was a Republican. It would be nice to have him back in the fold.
I don’t think he ever identified as a Republican, or voted Republican. For a few years he switched his registration to Republican as a protest, but that is not at all the same thing. A voter’s registration often has no relationship at all to their actual identification or voting.
A principled move, but one that always results in career suicide.
The precedent here is the 1969 race featuring incumbent John V. Lindsay, Dem city comptroller Mario Procaccino, and GOP candidate state Sen, John Marchi, who beat Lindsay in the Republican primary. Running as an independent on the Liberal party line, Lindsay eked out a win in the three-way race. Could history repeat itself 56 years later?
But can he win?
In Yoo Yawk? Not a chance.
Yes. NYC has a ranked choice election. Anything can happen.
allowing even more corruption for the lefty to bestow upon us
That’s wrong. Preferential voting puts power into voters’ hands and thus takes it away from the party machines. If it were available in the general election it might actually have given Adams a decent chance. But it isn’t.
Only in the party primary. Not in the general election.
the left is so far left that adams is seen as right of center