New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that he will run for reelection as an independent. The announcement comes one day after the corruption case against him was dismissed.
“There isn’t a ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’ way to fix New York,” Adams said in a video shared to X. “But there is a right way, and a wrong way, and true leaders don’t just know the right path, they have the guts to take it.”
“More than 25,000 New Yorkers signed my Democratic primary petition, but the dismissal of the bogus case against me dragged on too long, making it impossible to mount a primary campaign while these false accusations were held over me,” Adams added. “But I’m not a quitter. I’m a New Yorker. And that is why today, although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.”
“I firmly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled by the extremists on 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,” Adams explained.
“I know that the accusations leveled against me may have shaken your confidence in me and that you may rightly have questions about my conduct,” he said. “And let me be clear, although the charges against me were false, I trusted people that I should not have and I regret that.”
“It wasn’t a mistake to put politics aside and defy my party when needed, and speak the voice of working New Yorkers,” Adams stated.
