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Mayor Adams has dropped his re-election effort, but he certainly doesn’t sound like a man planning a vacation.
Far from it. In addition to keeping his day job until the end of the year, he’s plunging headfirst into a new battle: Making sure Zohran Mamdani does not become his successor.
In an interview, Adams called the committed Socialist “an extremist” whose policies would ruin New York, and said forcefully that the 33-year-old assemblyman “must be defeated in November.”
To that end, the mayor told me he has “put out feelers” to the two other remaining candidates, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa, about a possible endorsement….
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After Adams’ withdrawal, The Action Network, a sports betting outfit, gives Mamdani a 91% chance of victory.
When I pressed the mayor about whether he’s leaning more toward endorsing Cuomo or Sliwa, he responded that “I’m more inclined to Cuomo,” but quickly added, “Let’s not underestimate Sliwa as a fighter, but the problem is that he can’t govern.”
“We need someone who is going to fight and be able to to govern at the same time,” he said in an apparent nod to Cuomo’s long experience as governor and Attorney General.
Cuomo, in second place in the polls, is a more natural choice, given that he and Adams are Democrats.
That gives Cuomo a better chance of building a winning coalition of Dems, independents and some Republicans.
Also, Adams defeated Sliwa in the 2021 general election, and their nasty exchanges came with racial overtones.
Adams’ passion for defeating Mamdani is contagious because he speaks about the mayoralty and political power with unique experience.
He sees too many people who don’t like Mamdani foolishly talking themselves into believing the destructive impact of his policies could be minimized.
The mayor scoffs at this “illusion,” saying “Zohran and his comrades cannot be allowed to run this city. New York cannot be an experiment for their agenda.”
“People don’t understand how much power a mayor has,” he adds….
Note….
Andrew Cuomo NEEDS ALL the help he can get on this run…
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