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While he may not want to emulate their results, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has raised speculation that he will follow in the footsteps of his last three predecessors by running for President of the United States.
Adams, just over a year into his first term and who was rumored to be considering a run for president in the past, has raised more than $1.27 million for his reelection fund in that time, and half of that money comes from out-of-state donors, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board.
That easily beats the money raised by former mayors Bill de Blasio ($7,997) and Rudy Giuliani ($719,760), who were also running for president, albeit much later in their time in office.
Adams, if he were to run despite crime continuing to rise in the Big Apple, would be fighting against an important historical precedent for the position, as no New York City mayor has successfully run for one since John T. Hoffman was elected governor in 1869.
While he may not want to emulate their results, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has raised speculation that he will follow in the footsteps of his last three predecessors by running for President of the United States.
In fact, no mayor in the Big Apple has been elected to a higher office since 1913, when Ardolph Loges Kline was elected to Congress, though he was only mayor for three months after the previous mayor was killed at sea.
About $632,636 of Adams’ campaign coffers comes from donors outside of New York state.
In the last six months, 87 donors have ‘maxed out’ or given the $2,100 limit in donations.
Adams has notably received more than $13,000 from GrubHub officials, who are lobbying him to loosen regulations on food delivery, and $10,000 from Broadway Stages executives.
At the very least, the money raised would make it difficult for a primary challenger from Adams’s left or a Republican to defeat him in 2025. 2021, Adams raised nearly $9 million in private funding and qualified for another $10.1 million through the city’s public matching funding program.
Adams, 61, who once referred to himself as the ‘Biden of Brooklyn’, has ‘repeatedly’ told confidants that he is considering a run for the top job and believes he could ‘win’, the sources said. in May of last year. .
Ahead of the 2020 election, Biden himself has reportedly admitted that he would be a one-term president hoping to reunite the US in the wake of Donald Trump’s divisive presidency.
Adams, 61, who once referred to himself as the ‘Biden of Brooklyn’, has ‘repeatedly’ told confidants that he is considering a run for the top job and believes he could ‘win’, the sources said. in May of last year.
About $632,636 of Adams’ campaign coffers comes from donors outside of New York state.
Adams has raised a significant amount more than his predecessor Bill de Blasio, who raised just over $7,000 in his first year.
Adams hopes to break the string of failed presidential runs by de Blasio’s predecessors, Mike Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani (pictured)
But there is no obvious Democratic candidate to succeed him, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ personal approval ratings stubbornly low, and Biden is now said to be touting a 2024 run.
Though only five months into her first term, Adams has pandered to many centrist Democrats — and conservatives — by avoiding progressive or extreme stances on economic and social issues.
However, Adams adviser Evan Thies dismissed the rumours, saying: ‘The mayor has not had discussions with anyone about running for president. He is 100 percent focused on reducing crime and improving the economy in New York, and bringing this city back.”
However, the mayor appears to have some backing, as Tusk Strategies CEO Chris Coffey told the New York Post: “He’s one of the best-known black elected officials in the country.” The play works if Adams makes progress on crime and the president decides not to run. I think he would be crazy if he didn’t consider it.
Even one Republican lawmaker told the Post he thought the Big Apple mayor might have a chance if he solved the crime plaguing the city that never sleeps.
The statistics paint a bleak picture of the city’s efforts to tackle crime that have skyrocketed since the pandemic, a campaign Mayor Eric Adams has touted as successful several times over the past year.
The unnamed lawmaker said: “I said you really have to consider that you’re young enough to have a life after mayor and if you solve the crime problem, there would be a lot of interest in a big city Democrat, African American with progressive values but who mediated the crime problem in a major city.’
That said, seven months later, it was revealed that crime in the Big Apple was up in virtually every category, despite Adams’ recent claims.
Data shows that rapes, robberies and assaults increased from last year, reaching levels not seen in decades in both 2020 and 2021.
Rapes, which spiked in 2020 when the streets were empty and unemployment was rampant due to unrest caused by the coronavirus, increased by 7 percent, with more than 120 occurring this year than last.
Theft, meanwhile, rose an astonishing 20 percent, despite recent moves by Adams, 62, to increase police presence throughout the city.
Meanwhile, assaults and robberies across the city show an equally steep increase, with serious crimes up 12 percent (26,039 incidents this year compared to 22,835 last year) and burglaries a alarming 25 percent.
All other crime categories, including grand theft and motor vehicle theft, showed similar increases except for murder, despite the start of the pandemic now being nearly three years ago.