New York City Mayor Eric Adams is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo as his successor, less than four weeks after the incumbent mayor yielded to pressure from Cuomo and others to end his re-election bid.

Cuomo, who is running on a third-party line after losing the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani, was the only candidate in Wednesday night’s debate who said he would accept Adams’ backing. Both men sat together at a Knicks game immediately after the debate.

Their new alliance is an abrupt turnabout from the summer, when Adams attacked Cuomo’s record as governor and said he had a history of sidelining Black officials who stood in the way of his ambitions. Adams called Cuomo “ a snake and a liar .”

But the mayor told the New York Times on Thursday that he is now prepared to campa

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