New York City Mayor Eric Adams will not be running as a Democrat in the New York City Mayoral race.
Adams announced he will be running as an independent.
Adams said, “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.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams will run for reelection as an independent, opting out of the Democratic primary just one day after a federal judge dismissed corruption charges against him.
“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,” Adams said in a Thursday morning post on X.
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In a Thursday interview with Politico, which first reported the news, Adams explained that he wants to “mount a real independent campaign” now that he is “uninhibited” by the federal bribery case that “handcuffed him.” The independent campaign, he explained, would rely on a “solid base of people” outside Manhattan.
A federal judge dismissed the charges against him on Wednesday.
A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, agreeing it was the only practical outcome while blasting the Justice Department’s “troubling” rationale for wanting the charges thrown out — namely so the Democrat could help President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The judge, though, denied prosecutors the option to refile the charges after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho’s order to dismiss the case “with prejudice” spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump or potentially risk having the Republican’s Justice Department revive the charges.
The judge said he wasn’t opining on the merits of the case, but that courts can’t force prosecutors to move forward. Still, he expressed qualms about the government’s move, saying “there are many reasons to be troubled” by its reasoning.
Even elected officials are leaving the Democrat party.
