Mayor Adams ended his mayoral election campaign Sunday, a stunning move that comes after President Trump’s team and New York business leaders have pressured him to get out of the race to help block Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani from taking over the reins at City Hall.

Adams, who has been running for a second term as an independent candidate in November’s mayoral election, made the blockbuster announcement in a video to be released shortly by his campaign.

Adams — the city’s second Black mayor who was elected in 2021 on a pledge to make the five boroughs safer — took the extraordinary step as sources say intermediaries for the mayor have for weeks been in talks with Trump advisers about him dropping out in exchange for a post in the president’s administration.

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