“I am the poster for the faux pas,” said Eric Adams TimesThinking about the trajectory of his life in 2021, when he presented himself for the mayor of New York. Adams, who grew up in southern Jamaica, in Queens, in the nineteen sixty-old and the 80s, has long sucked in to be considered as a model for children in the working class of external districts, especially for young blacks. Over time, however, his faults have become what he was known. “I am perfectly imperfect,” he said on several occasions, when taken in the little lies, the contradictions and the conflicts of interests that have shaped his political reputation. On Sunday, in a disjointed video of eight minutes and six seconds published on X, Adams announced that he would no longer actively seek re -election, which was official which had been expected for some time – that, on January 1, he will no longer be mayor – and cement his last and the greatest transfots like his heritage.
The list of forgetful, stranded, twisted and compromises mayors of New York is long, and yet, even in this tradition little, Adams will stand out for a while. What started as “boastful” – a mayor in town, in a non -seen way for decades – advanced to a blatant and unscrupulous contempt for the corruption and the internal relations of his friends, allies and advisers. Despite the supervision of a town hall which advanced major initiatives in housing and zoning, which has provided temporary housing and other services to hundreds of thousands of migrants, and which containing city waste, among other achievements, Adams should perhaps be known for the moment, in the fall of 2023, when he expelled his iPhone in his campaign in his campaign in his campaign Forgot the password. The federals have never accessed the content of this mobile device. Before the criminal corruption file against Adams could proceed to the trial, Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, and Adams ended up concluding an agreement with the Trump administration to escape the accusations. The price was copation – or at least silence – as the federals embarked on their immigration repression in New York. “If he does not go, I will be back in New York,” Tom Homan, Tsar Frontier of Trump, said during a joint appearance with Adams on Fox News, after the conclusion of the agreement. “I will be in his office, in his buttocks, saying:” Where devil is the agreement in which we arrived? ” “”
In the video announcing its dropout on Sunday, Adams, in a clean white shirt, with its rolled sleeves, descends a carpet staircase in Gracie Mansion and pole a big photo of her late mother, Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter, next to him. Once again, he refuses to take responsibility for making himself not only a legal and political responsibility for the city, but also a shore. “I was wrongly charged because I fought for this city and, if I had to start again, I would fight again for New York,” he said to the camera. His agreement with Trump may have prevented him from leaving the prison, but he was obvious thereafter, how his number of surveys fell and his staff and his allies fled, that his political career was over. That Adams remained mayor and kept his candidacy for re -election, although he was so visibly and deeply compromised, denies his promises, which he repeated on Sunday, that “this campaign was never about me”.
While watching his support and financing drying himself, Adams, sixty-five, recently let his young assistants go wild online, publishing content even cracked in the hope of attracting the Yolo Vote, but it was futile. The surveys showed him in a constant manner which was dragged not only Zohran Mamdani, the young final socialist who shocked the world by winning the Democratic primary in June, and Andrew Cuomo, the former disgrace governor who set up an independent supply of the burned earth after being rinsed by Mamdani in primary; He also slipped behind Curtis Sliwa, a former street vigilante and Gadfly Politics bearing the red wings that will appear on the republican line. Sunday, Adams recognized reality. “Constant media speculations on my future and the decision of the board of directors of the campaign to retain millions of dollars have undermined my ability to collect the funds necessary for a serious campaign,” he said. Shortly after, a spokesperson sent a statement indicating that Adams provided for serving the rest of his mandate, but that he will not make an interview head-to-head and will appreciate the understanding of the press and the public “, as if Adams was a celebrity in the midst of a high profile divorce.
Months ago, it was Adams who predicted that this year’s mayor’s campaign would have “so many twists and turns” and would end up being “one of the most exciting races we have had in the history of this city”. We do not know what effect its release will have, however. The persistent rumor of the past few weeks has been that the Trump administration dimensions for a job, perhaps at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, or as an ambassador of Saudi Arabia, or another equally absurd position. His withdrawal pleases the powerful and deep opponents of Mamdani, who tried to consolidate the field against the young candidate before November. Mamdani has a healthy advance in each survey, and has already beaten Cuomo once this year. In his release video, Adams offered an implicit Mamdani criticism, warning that “our children are radicalized”, and he recently called Cuomo as “snake” and “liar” – it is difficult to see him put himself behind the candidates in the weekly closing weeks, although ADAMS was correctly on tons and turns. A few days ago, when information suggested that he was leaving the race, Adams denied him with anger several times. Why he decided to bow now, as opposed to six days ago, or three months ago, or when the FBI asked him for his iPhone, could fall like another inscription mystery in a political career whose access code was forgotten a long time ago. Another misstep of a master of them. ♦
