New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani referred to as reporting Wednesday that the White Home is contemplating administration jobs for Mayor Eric Adams and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa an “affront to our democracy.”
The New York Occasions reported Wednesday that advisers to President Donald Trump have mentioned giving incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who’s working as an unbiased, a place within the administration to clear the sector and arrange a head-to-head race between Mamdani and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who misplaced the Democratic main to Mamdani and is now working as an unbiased. The talks have additionally concerned Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, the Occasions reported.
In mid-July after the Democratic main, Trump informed reporters that Cuomo ought to stay within the race.
“I believe he ought to keep. I believe he has a shot,” he mentioned. “He’ll run a tricky marketing campaign.”
New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a press convention in New York Metropolis, Sept. 2, 2025.
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In August, requested if he had spoke to Cuomo about his NY city mayoral run, Trump mentioned, “I have not, no, I have not.”
Mamdani mentioned Wednesday of the Occasions report, “Immediately, we now have realized what New Yorkers have lengthy suspected — that Andrew Cuomo is Donald Trump’s option to be the subsequent mayor of this metropolis.”
He continued: “Immediately’s information that the White Home is contemplating job gives for Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa, it isn’t information that carries that means due to any affect it can have on this race. We really feel simply as assured as we did yesterday that we are going to win this race in November.”
That is, nonetheless, about an affront to our democracy, an affront to what makes so many people proud to be Individuals, that we select our personal leaders, not that they get to choose themselves, not that they get to be picked by the president of the US, the identical president who detained a 6-year-old woman from a New York Metropolis public faculty system and took her a whole bunch of miles away, the identical president that reduce SNAP advantages from the hungry throughout these 5 boroughs … the identical president who will throw thousands and thousands of New Yorkers off their medical health insurance, is now searching for to undermine the very cloth of this metropolis.”
An emotional Mamdani then careworn that New York “isn’t on the market.”
“That’s what this information has revealed to us at this time, and that’s what this marketing campaign is combating — not merely another candidate that will likely be on the poll, however the notion that New York Metropolis is on the market. We all know that this metropolis will determine its personal future, and we all know that it’s New Yorkers that we are going to flip to make that call in November, not the White Home in Washington, D.C.”
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams arrives to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at his Queens marketing campaign workplace in Queens, New York, Aug. 14, 2025.
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Adams’ marketing campaign denied that he has spoken with Trump and mentioned he was not supplied or requested for a task in Trump’s administration.
“Mayor Adams has made it clear he won’t reply to each rumor that comes up,” marketing campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro mentioned in an announcement to ABC Information. “Mayor Adams has not met with Donald Trump — do not imagine the noise,” marketing campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro mentioned in an announcement to ABC Information. “He’s not dropping out of the race. The Mayor is totally dedicated to successful this election, with thousands and thousands of New Yorkers getting ready to solid their votes. His report is evident: crime is down, jobs are up, and he has persistently stood up for working households. Mayor Adams is concentrated on constructing on that progress and incomes 4 extra years to proceed delivering for the individuals of New York.”
Sliwa mentioned in an announcement to ABC Information that the White Home had not contacted him, including that he’s centered on New York.
“I am the one candidate on a significant get together line who can defeat Mamdani, and I am dedicated to carrying this battle by means of to Election Day,” he mentioned.
ABC Information has reached out to Cuomo’s marketing campaign for its response.
The White Home has not responded to ABC Information’ request for remark.
New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa campaigns within the New York Metropolis subway system, Aug. 18, 2025.
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Mamdani was requested Wednesday by a reporter if he was indignant. He mentioned he was, pointing to “backroom offers” that alienate New Yorkers, and his successful margins over Cuomo might have inspired Trump to become involved.
“I’m indignant. I am indignant as a result of so usually we consider this solely by way of the dynamics of politics. However the motive that so many New Yorkers are fed up with politics as they know it’s due to information like this, backroom offers, corrupt agreements, all of which serve to extend the sense of disaffection and despair because it pertains to how individuals really feel about politics throughout this nation, and to know that having defeated Andrew Cuomo by 13 factors, having received the votes of near 600,000 New Yorkers, has solely been understood by that former authorities as an invite to collaborate with Donald Trump,” Mamdani added.
Requested what his message is straight for Eric Adams, Mamdani mentioned he would not assume any mayoral candidate needs to be contemplating taking offers with the administration.
“I do not assume anybody searching for to characterize the individuals of this metropolis needs to be taking a job with the administration that’s making it more durable for the individuals of town to afford the place that they name house…my challenge is the work that’s happening proper now in these sorts of conversations, in these sorts of conferences, to subvert the need of Democrats throughout town, all within the curiosity of Donald Trump.”
Mamdani mentioned he additionally sees “many moral points with this information” and has a tough time believing what he says is “Mayor Adams’ ever-changing story.”
