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new york city mayor eric adams will support Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral election, a spokesman said Thursday, throwing his weight behind a bitter rival whom he recently called a “snake and a liar” as the former governor tries to defeat Zohran MamdaniDemocratic candidate.
Adams spokesman Todd Shapiro said the mayor will support Cuomo and intends to campaign with him. Adams also told reporters at an unrelated news conference that he would “be with Andrew later today” but declined to answer other questions on the race.
The two leaders met at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night new york The Knicks’ opening game of the season – right after the city’s final mayoral debate. He was photographed looking irritable, leading to speculation of an upcoming endorsement.
It was not immediately clear whether Adams’ endorsement would help Cuomo in the city’s November election. Adams, who abandoned her re-election campaign late last month, has seen her political capital collapse under the weight of a federal corruption case that was ultimately dismissed after an extraordinary intervention by the Trump administration.
Cuomo, a centrist, has presented himself as the only candidate who can defeat Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist and state Assembly member who shocked the political establishment by soundly defeating the former governor in the June primary.
Cuomo’s path to victory hinges on his ability to win over moderates and Republicans, but in recent days he has acknowledged that it is becoming “mathematically difficult” for him to win as long as Republican Curtis Sliwa remains in the race. At the same time, the former governor has stepped up his criticism of Mamdani, claiming on conservative media that if Mamdani wins, there will be chaos in the city.
Sliwa, the colorful founder of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, has steadfastly rejected calls from both Cuomo and his supporters to leave the group.
The endorsement would mark a reconciliation of sorts for the two longtime New York politicians, each of whom had escalated attacks against the other before Adams ended his campaign.
Shortly before exiting, Adams accused Cuomo of making “a career of shutting black candidates out of races,” referring to the former governor’s previous state races.
Cuomo, meanwhile, has described Adams’ management of the city as a “never-ending series of government corruption.”
“New Yorkers have shut down the stewardship of their city,” he said earlier this year.
There were some signs of tensions easing in the days following Adams’ exit, with several of the mayor’s aides and surrogates coming out in support of Cuomo.
In a video announcing her departure from the race, Adams did not name any candidates, but warned of “insidious forces” using local government to “pursue a divisive agenda” – which many interpreted as a reference to Mamdani.
___ Izaguirre reported from Albany, New York.