Adams And Cuomo Tell Each Other To Drop Out

Politico reports:

Two independent candidates in the New York City mayoral election — incumbent Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo — have been trying to get each other to drop their campaigns in the hopes of beating Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. So far, neither is budging. Adams said Monday that Cuomo is the number one obstacle standing in the way of his reelection and called for him to step aside.

“I think he really should do an analysis and say: Give Eric an opportunity to run against [Zohran],” Adams said during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box. The mayor also revealed Cuomo had called him to ask the same thing. “I’m the sitting mayor of the City of New York, and you expect for me to step aside when you just lost to Zohran by 12 points?” Adams asked in the CNBC interview.

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Per sources, Cuomo’s camp has privately floated to Eric Adams’ team running an independent poll testing the viability of each man in head-to-head matchups against Mamdani, with the idea that whoever performs best stays in the race and the other drops out. https://t.co/vPxwABbwDn

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Eric Adams reveals Cuomo asked him to drop out of NYC mayoral race, calls former governor arrogant https://t.co/QOVFVrQTOI

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Game of chicken: Eric Adams, Cuomo want each other out of NYC mayoral race https://t.co/mZ9F3qlImq

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