"The lengthy, bizarre political career of New York City Mayor Eric Adams has arrived at its inevitable, ignominious end. On Sunday afternoon-just weeks after insisting he was not dropping out of the race and taking a job with the Trump administration-Adams tweeted a suitably overwrought video from the steps of Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, declaring that he was no longer seeking a second term,"
""I cannot continue my reelection campaign," Adams humbly submitted on camera as he sat next to a large headshot of his late mother, with Frank Sinatra's "My Way" playing in the background. The mayor then pivoted to a rhetorical tack fitting of the president he's been sucking up to all year, and who just so happens to love that song."
Eric Adams ended his bid for a second term while pledging to serve out the remainder of the year and stay on the general-election ballot on the "SafeAndAffordable" and "EndAntisemitism" lines. The announcement came in an overwrought video filmed on the Gracie Mansion steps, where Adams appeared beside a headshot of his late mother with Frank Sinatra's "My Way" playing. Adams warned that children were being radicalized to hate the city and country and cautioned against those promising to dismantle longstanding systems. The decision followed weeks of mixed signals, including claims he would not drop out and reports of a Trump administration job; an early draft included a personal jab at Andrew Cuomo.
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