Posted on 04/03/2025 1:00:49 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Eric Adams will not seek the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor — instead pushing all his chips in on a longshot run as an independent candidate.
Hizzoner dropped the bombshell news in a campaign video announcement Thursday — just the day after a federal judge killed his corruption case for good.
“More than 25,000 New Yorkers signed my Democratic primary petition, but the dismissal of the bogus case against me dragged on too long, making it impossible to mount a primary campaign while these false accusations were held over me,” Adams said in the six-minute spiel.
“But I’m not a quitter. I’m a New Yorker,” he continued. “And that is why today, although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.”
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This guy is an insufferable loser.
split the Dem vote in the general election to help the Republican?
my thought too
Guess he realized what demons the Democrats are.
We need to run some Republicans as Dino’s and do the same to them
Most likely.
If so, good for him.
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