"Merely a month ago, he stood before all of us reporters at Gracie Mansion and he said 'Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar' and 'I am in this to win this' and 'I'm the one that can beat Mamdani.' The next day, my colleagues and I wrote a story saying that nobody believes Eric Adams, that we all still think that there's a chance that he was going to suspend his campaign,"
"Was it just that he saw no path to victory or is there something else still to come?"
"We know from [Coltin's] reporting and elsewhere that there's been different things dangled towards him,"
Eric Adams will leave the New York City mayoralty at the start of 2026 after suspending his reelection campaign on September 28. The suspension cleared the field for contenders including Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa. Adams faced a tumultuous mayoralty marked by a federal corruption accusation that was later dropped and persistent polling deficits behind challengers. Reporters and analysts described the suspension as likely inevitable given political realities. Questions remain about whether outside forces and offers, including efforts to persuade him to exit the race, influenced the timing of his decision.
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