Mayor Eric Adams.
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Mayor Eric Adams stated on Monday that New York Metropolis must be saved from ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, marking his first clear rebuke of the state’s former prime govt since launching a bid for mayor over the weekend.
Hizzoner’s remarks had been in response to Cuomo’s central marketing campaign message that he’s the one to “save” town from the chaos that has erupted beneath Adams’ three-plus years as mayor.
Cuomo, who resigned from the governorship in 2021 amid a number of allegations of sexual misconduct that he denies, launched the “save our city” line in a 17-minute marketing campaign launch video launched on Saturday. The previous governor slammed town’s present management with out naming Adams and argued that he was the one to proper the ship.
The previous governor is already going through a barrage of assaults from his rivals over his remedy of New York Metropolis because the state’s chief govt and the scandals that led him to resign.
In response to Adams, Cuomo’s spokesperson, Wealthy Azzopardi, merely stated, “We will let the voters decide.”
‘Get an original idea,’ mayor tells challengers
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a mayoral marketing campaign announcement on March 2, 2025.Picture by Dean Moses
“Look at what I ran on and what I completed, and look at what they now are shifting to run on,” he stated. “All I’m saying to all of them, get an OI, an original idea. Get your originality. Don’t run on what Eric ran on and accomplished. You’re gonna continue what I’ve down.”
But Adams declined to supply many extra ideas on Cuomo’s candidacy, insisting that he can not marketing campaign throughout his official mayoral press conferences at Metropolis Corridor. As a substitute, he stated he would save his assaults on Cuomo’s report and scandals for the marketing campaign path.
However, Adams did trace at plans to blast Cuomo over the excessive COVID-19 demise toll in New York’s nursing houses, which many allege stemmed from the previous governor’s order to readmit sufferers to the amenities after they had been discharged from the hospital. Cuomo has additionally been accused of purposefully undercounting the state’s coronavirus nursing residence deaths.
“I met with some of the nursing home family members and advoctes, there are some things we want to do with them,” Adams stated. “But he has to answer that question on the trail.”
Cuomo’s crew has fiercely disputed that he mishandled COVID-19 in nursing houses. Azzopardi has pointed to a January 2025 Justice Division inspector basic’s report that he says exhibits Trump’s first White Home had tried to smear Cuomo’s dealing with of the lethal virus’ unfold in nursing houses, in an obvious effort to affect the 2020 presidential election.
“The DOJ inspector general released a report definitively stating that federal employees corruptly used DOJ resources to go after New York even though they knew that New York was following the federal guidelines and that other states had far worse COVID infection problems in their homes,” he stated. “This was all political to help in the 2020 election, and it’s there in black and white in that report.”
Cuomo has come into the race as a frontrunner, rolling out his marketing campaign with endorsements from key supporters, together with pols like US Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) and the District Council of Carpenters. He has led the Democratic main area, together with Adams, in a collection of public polls in latest weeks and can draw assist from the identical base of older Black and Latino voters as Adams.
In the meantime, Adams’ probabilities of getting re-elected seem to have grown ever slimmer.
The embattled mayor has refused a number of calls to resign following President Trump’s Justice Division’s transfer to drop his federal corruption costs. These calling for his ouster allege that Adams is compromised after agreeing to do Trump’s bidding on immigration enforcement in change for dismissing the fees in opposition to him.
