Mayor Eric Adams announced he will not resign or suspend his reelection campaign after new indictments against former chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin. Adams declined to explicitly condemn his former aides while insisting he must continue leading New York City. Adams emphasized that none of his general election challengers—Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, or Curtis Sliwa—are prepared to run the city. Adams has faced multiple corruption scandals during his administration, including his own federal bribery case, which was dismissed earlier this year at President Trump’s behest. Polling shows Adams trailing in the mayoral race.
When you were calling around to my staff saying is the announcement today that Eric is stepping down?' Hell no, Adams said a Democrat running for reelection as an independent. I'm never going to quit on the city of New York, we worked too hard to get here.
I'm not going to leave this city to a beret-wearing carnival display. I'm not going to leave it to a person who put dangerous laws on the booksI'm not going to leave this city to someone that does not understand what it is to run a city, Adams said referring to Sliwa's appearance, the laws Cuomo passed as governor, and Mamdani's relative lack of experience respectively.
While Adams himself was not implicated in the latest charges, his administration has seen a torrent of corruption scandals over the past two years. Chief among them is his own federal bribery case, which was dismissed at the behest of President Trump earlier this year.
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