With the followers by stirring the campaign signs and the song of “Four more years”, the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, formally launched its re -election offer on Thursday from the steps of the City Council, framing as a blue collar candidate with an achievement record and its main main rival, Zohran Mamdani, as an inexperienced opponent that makes “empty promises.” “
“I am very proud to be here to tell the people of New York City, I am looking for a re -election to be his mayor of New York City,” Adams said amid strong applause from an enthusiastic group of supporters who are behind him.
The first 64 -year -old Adams mandate was persecuted by federal positions to accept illegal gifts, including plane improvements and stays in hotels, from businessmen and Turkish officials in exchange for a preferential treatment. Some Democrats also criticized Adams for meeting with Trump administration officials on the application of the immigration law after federal prosecutors under the new administration dismissed corruption charges against them.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announces his re -election campaign as an independent after leaving the Democratic party, in the City of New York City, on June 26, 2025.
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Adams announced in April that he was changing from being a Democrat to an independent to go in the general elections.
On Tuesday, Mamdani, 33, a member of the New York State Assembly and self -described democratic socialist, declared the victory in the Democratic primaries, bothering former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned from his position in 2021 after a series of women accused him of sexual harassment, charges he has denied.
On Thursday, Adams only focused on his achievements as mayor, while throwing Mamdani as someone in a privileged context who, according to him, has achieved little as a state legislator.
“This election is a choice between a candidate with a blue necklace and one with a … silver spoon, a choice between dirty nails and careful nails, an election between someone who delivered a lower crime, the greatest amount of work in history, the newest housing built in decades and a member of the assembly that did not approve a bill,” Adams said.
Referring to Mamdani’s campaign promises to make New York city more affordable when freezing rentals in stabilized apartments, making buses managed by the city faster and faster, creating grocery stores administered by the city to reduce food prices and raise the minimum wage to $ 30 per hour, Adams said the choice presents “an choice between real progress and empty promises.”
“This choice is a choice between those who believe in this city and those who do not,” said Adams.
Adams also pointed out that Mamdani calls himself a democratic socialist.
“Let me tell you something, this is a city not of socialism,” Adams said. “I have been in socialist countries. This is a city where you can come as dishwasher, and you can own a restaurant chain. This is a city where you can be a taxi driver and then become a doctor. This is a city where you can go from the lack of housing to the construction of housing.”
In a interview On Wednesday with the presenter of ABC New York station, Bill Ritter was asked Mamdani to define being a Democratic socialist.
“I think of Dr. King, who decades said: ‘Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.” There must be a better distribution of wealth for all the children of God in this country. “It should not be something that can be with a price. And that is why, in the heart of our campaign, it focuses on the freezing of rent for more than 2 million tenants stabilized with rent, which makes the slowest buses in the country quickly. “
In addition to Mamdani, Adams will face Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Crime Prevention Organization of Los Angeles Guardians, in the general elections of November. Cuomo said he is weighing the decision to execute in the general elections as independent.
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announces his re -election campaign as an independent after leaving the Democratic party, in the City of New York City, on June 26, 2025.
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Sometimes during his speech, Adams was interrupted by the hecklers who blew whistles and one that shouted an improper and called him a “criminal.”
“Listen, observe how we use letter F,” Adams told his supporters in response to theos. “We use the letter F for faith. Our opponents use the letter F for blasphemies. Therefore, we need to stay focused, without distractions and routes.”
Adams reported his rise from a poor child raised in Brooklyn for a single mother to become a captain in the New York Police Department, was then elected state senator, president of the Brooklyn County and, in November 2021, the 110 mayor of the city.
Referring to his own background, Adams said: “This is a city in which a young person who is dyslexic, a young person who is rejected and is finally chosen to be the mayor of New York City.”
He added: “I was not born in power and privilege; I grew up in struggle,” Adams said, apparently referring to Mamdani, whose mother, Look Nair, is a filmmaker nominated for an Oscar and whose father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a professor at Columbia University.
Adams said that, as mayor, he helped lead New York through pandemic and that, under his leadership, violent crime in the city has fallen to historical levels. According to ADAMS, 500,000 new jobs have been created and affordable homes have been extended by converting unused buildings in homes. He even boasted that Broadway had his best 12 months in registered history.
But in his interview with WABC, Mandami said that Adams has “exacerbated a cost of living crisis.”
“The rent of more than 2 million New Yorkers increased by 9%. It increased the highest water invoices that have been in 13 years, and stood on Edison’s side when they wanted to increase gas and electricity bills by $ 65 a month,” Mamdani said. “This is someone who has put his thumb on the scale against the New Yorkers middle class workers. We need someone to really use all the tools to provide relief to those same New York.”
Mandani also said that it will not shy to fight against the policies of the Trump administration that “attack the fabric of what makes us proud as many as New York.”
During his speech on Thursday, Adams did not mention Trump.
“There are some critics who spend more time attacking than achieving,” Adams said. “Let me be clear: they have a registration of tweets; I have a record in these streets, a record of results. They talk about problems, I fix them.”
