{"id":6090,"date":"2025-04-03T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T12:01:43","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-will-skip-democratic-primary-and-run-for-reelection-as-an-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6090","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams will skip Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">New York City Mayor <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/eric-adams\">Eric Adams<\/a> on Thursday said he will pull out of the city&#8217;s Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent candidate, arguing that his federal bribery charges had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/1q8fsnvv41208zjw6jxfz\/MEA-2.mov?rlkey=u6hxzn5xzteipk25nxzbo5x64&amp;e=4&amp;st=ex0kkd8u&amp;dl=0\">video<\/a>, Adams, whose <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-charges-ff3730a2e870cd219e8fead8899118b1\">criminal case was dismissed Wednesday<\/a>, said he will not run in the Democratic primary in June because the case \u201cdragged on too long\u201d while the \u201cfalse accusations were held over me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI firmly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled at by the extremists at the far left or the far right, but instead those rooted in the common middle, the place where the vast majority of New Yorkers are firmly planted,&#8221; Adams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The decision came after intense speculation over whether Adams would remain in the Democratic primary, which has attracted a several serious opponents, including <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cuomo-mayor-new-york-city-mayor-1ed3ebb2c60acd53bb49bb5ee9921890\">former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Adams&#8217; announcement was first reported by Politico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he will pull out of the city&#8217;s Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent candidate, arguing that his federal bribery charges had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign. In a video, Adams, whose criminal case was dismissed Wednesday, said he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}