NEW YORK – Eric Adams’s embattled mayorship is providing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo an opening to revive his own political career as he fights to supplant Adams as the centrist in New York City’s mayoral race.

Adams, a law-and-order Democrat elected mayor in 2021, has drawn a crowded primary field as his reelection campaign sputters under a cloud of scandal. His approval rating had already sunk to record lows for a sitting mayor as he grappled with sexual misconduct allegations and a migrant crisis.