WATCH: Mayor Eric Adams Endorses Andrew Cuomo and Slams ‘Communist’ Mamdani

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Oct 23rd, 2025, 3:40 pm

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) held a press conference Thursday to formally endorse former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign to succeed him.

Adams dropped out of the race at the end of September after a series of scandals plagued his office and made it difficult to create a foothold in the mayoral race even though he was the incumbent.

“Am I angry that I’m not the one taking down Zohran, the socialist and the communist? You’re darn right I am,” Adams said of frontrunner Zohran Mamdani (D), a Muslim and self-described democratic socialist. “But you know what? This city means more to me then anything and it’s time for us as a family to come together.”

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