In a marked shift, Mayor Adams is planning to “soon” commission an internal poll that he will use to help him decide whether to continue his longshot bid for reelection, one of his top advisers, Frank Carone, told the Daily News on Thursday.

Carone, Adams’ reelection campaign chairman, didn’t offer a more precise timeline or divulge who will conduct the poll. Todd Shapiro, Adams’ campaign spokesman, wouldn’t share more details, either, only saying the mayor “will be spending his resources to get his message out and will then look at his own independent poll to make a decision” about the mayoral race.

The latest comments from Adams’ camp present a shift in tone and one of the strongest indications yet the mayor’s seriously considering abandoning his independent reelection campaign as

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