NYC Mayor Eric Adams insists he isn’t ending his reelection campaign
September 3, 2025
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government. A person familiar with those conversations says intermediaries with President Donald Trump’s administration recently reached out to people close to Adams, a Democrat, to discuss whether he would be open to abandoning his reelection campaign to take a federal job. It was unclear how far those talks progressed. But as media reports about them multiplied, Adams insisted in interviews and through a spokesperson on Wednesday that he had no intention of dropping out of the contest