He's a friend of President Trump.
And that is the reason why, they'd rather have Mamdani than vote for Adams. As of the last poll I saw, he's running fourth. The only candidate with any chance is Sliwa- if he was running as an Independent too he'd have an excellent chance.
“The only candidate with any chance is Sliwa-...”
Sliwa is far too good a man for the curent population of New York.