It’s certainly an unusual New York City mayor’s race. If you recently started paying attention, here’s the extremely abridged version: Our incumbent Mayor Eric Adams should have had an easy path to reelection after winning the open seat as a Democrat in 2021. But then he got federally indicted in September 2024 , and a whole bunch of other Democrats smelled blood in the water and jumped in the race to primary him. But then! The mayor got dis-indicted after President Donald Trump took office and the Department of Justice dropped the corruption charges against Adams. Then Adams dropped out of the Democratic primary altogether, opting instead to run for reelection as an independent candidate. Eleven Democrats duked it out in the primary, including former Gov. Andrew Cuomo – who ran an
Here’s who’s running for New York City mayor in 2025

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