It’s certainly an unusual New York City mayor’s race. Spurred by a historic indictment of the sitting mayor, a long list of prominent Democrats started fundraising to see if they can topple incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in the June 24 Democratic primary. But in a stunning turn of events, Adams is no longer facing corruption charges – and he’s no longer running for reelection as a Democrat. He is running for reelection now as an independent, he announced, just one day after a judge accepted a request from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to dismiss the charges against him. Free from his legal troubles and untethered to a Democratic Party that he remains unpopular in, Adams’ path to reelection is a narrow one. But no longer needing to vie for support in the Democratic primary this

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