By Katie Tarrant, Sarah Ellison, The Washington Post

New York Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that he is dropping his reelection bid, saying in a recorded video message, “Despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my reelection campaign.”

The Democrat, who has led the city since 2022, faced pressure to drop out of the race — particularly from President Donald Trump — to consolidate more support for former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Cuomo is running as an independent candidate against the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa, and the Democratic nominee and front-runner, Zohran Mamdani. Adams had been running as an independent, even though he was elected as a Democrat.

Adams did not endorse another candidate in the race, and took veiled swipes at both of his erstwhile rivals, Mamdani and Cuomo.

“New Yorkers should be suspicious of any politician or political movement that claims we must wholesale destroy the systems we created together over generations in order to usher in a new, untested order led by self-styled saviors,” he said in an apparent reference to Mamdani.

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