New York City Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out of the Democrat primary race and will run for re-election as an independent instead, announcing the move just a day after the criminal corruption case against him was dropped.
Adams, who has been in office since 2022, shared his plans to attempt to make history as the first non-partisan candidate to win NYC mayorship since 1969 in an early morning social media post:
“I have always put New York’s people before politics and party—and I always will. I am running for mayor in the general election because our city needs independent leadership that understands working people,” he wrote, along with a six-minute video explaining his choice:
“There isn’t a liberal or conservative way to
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