Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams gestures whereas delivering remarks throughout her state of the town. Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
It’s now Adams vs. Adams — and loads of different candidates — within the 2025 NYC mayoral race.
Adrienne Adams, the Metropolis Council speaker, confirmed on Thursday that she is formally leaping into the Democratic mayoral main in opposition to Mayor Eric Adams — to whom she shouldn’t be associated.
Though the speaker, the primary Black lady to carry the place, by no means deliberate to run, she mentioned it’s vital given the crises engulfing Mayor Adams’ administration and the necessity to defend the overwhelmingly Democratic metropolis in opposition to assaults from President Trump.
“New Yorkers can’t afford to live here, City Hall is in chaos, and Donald Trump is corrupting our city’s independence. It’s time to stand up,” the speaker mentioned. “Our city deserves a leader that serves its people first and always, not someone focused on themselves and their own political interests. I’m a public servant, mother, Queens girl and I’m running for Mayor. No drama, no nonsense—just my commitment to leading with competence and integrity.”
The speaker will host a marketing campaign kickoff occasion in Queens on Saturday, based on her marketing campaign.
Throughout the handle, Speaker Adams painted herself as a frontrunner who may deliver folks with totally different political opinions collectively round fixing the town’s most urgent points.
“How we gauge policy solutions should be based on their effectiveness in improving the lives of New Yorkers,” the speaker mentioned. “We can find common ground if we choose to listen and work towards solutions together. That’s how I’ve led, and how we’ve successfully responded to some of our city’s greatest challenges.”
The speaker’s entrance will seemingly complicate the race for each Mayor Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s the early front-runner after launching his personal bid over the weekend. She is a average who has overlapping bases of assist with each candidates.
Nonetheless, the speaker must start fundraising at break-neck velocity, as she presently solely has round $211,000 in her marketing campaign account, based on metropolis Marketing campaign Finance Board data.
Speaker Adams joins a crowded discipline that already contains present metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander, his predecessor Scott Stringer, state Sens. Zellnor Myrie (D-Brooklyn) and Jessica Ramos (D-Queens), Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens), former Bronx Meeting Member Michael Blake, and businessman Whitney Tilson.
She has represented a portion of south east Queens within the council since 2018 and was elevated to the function of speaker in 2021. Previous to that, she chaired Queens Group Board 12 for 3 phrases and labored as a company government coach.
