New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday slammed the media for producing stories that hurt “his ability to campaign.”
Adams is trying to beat out Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani, Republican Curtis Sliwa, and Independent former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to stay in Gracie Mansion.
“All these rumors, all these lies. Folks had me going to Saudi Arabia. They had me going to HUD. They had me going to the Yankee game. They had me going to Washington on Monday,” Adams said, speaking of news stories. “The media should not be the hidden anti-Eric Adams votes. … This is hurting my ability to campaign. It’s unfair. It’s not right. And you’re not doing it to any other candidate but me.”
In the midst of his campaign, Adams is referencing the allegations that he will drop his campaign bid to join the Trump administration. At times, he’s left the door open for these things to happen.
But as the rumors came to a peak, Adams announced that he would stay in the race and launched a set of furious attacks against Cuomo.
The mayor called Cuomo “a snake and a liar.”
Now it appears as if none of Cuomo, Sliwa or Adams will drop out of the race. There has long been speculation that at least two of them needed to drop out to give an opposition candidate a chance against Mamdani, who many view as too far on the Left side of the political spectrum to be mayor.
President Donald Trump, who favored Cuomo against Mamdani one-on-one, now appears resigned that Mamdani will be mayor.
“I’m not looking at the polls too carefully, but it would look like he’s going to win,” Trump said of Mamdani, calling him my “little communist.”
“And that’s a rebellion,” he added. “It’s also a rebellion against bad candidates, OK? It’s a rebellion. They’re tired of it.”
Adams has been the odd man out of the three and has polled the weakest. His administration’s relationship with the media has reached a boiling point.
His press secretary, Kayla Mamelak Altus, got into a spat on X with reporter Katie Honan on Thursday.
She mocked Honan’s status as a journalist, and Honan asked her publicly: “Why are you so bad at this taxpayer dime?”
Altus then mocked her for leaving the Wall Street Journal for a different outlet. Honan then asked the press secretary where her Emmy awards were.
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The exchange marks a little less than two months away from the general election. With the debates coming later this month, the campaign water is set to get hotter.
Mamdani is favored to win the race, but the other three candidates will try to knock him down in the weeks remaining.
