Eric Adams in 2024?
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100 days in, Adams shows why he’s New York City’s “perfectly imperfect” mayor
BY ELIZABETH KIM
PUBLISHED APRIL 9, 2022
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Mayor Eric Adams is flanked by NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell (l) and members of the clergy on day 97 as mayor.
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Do it. fukk it.
Just wanna say. I called this.
Eric Adams eyeing White House run in 2024: sources
A Brooklyn Democratic elected official who was also frequently in talks with the mayor said Adams was “considering a White House run in 2024 if Biden doesn’t seek re-election,” ad…
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Eric Adams eyeing White House run in 2024: sources
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Mayor Adams may be eyeing a White House run if President Biden doesn’t seek a second term, confidantes and City Hall insiders told The Post.
“Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024. He has said that repeatedly. He thinks New York is a national platform. He thinks the national party has gotten too far to the left and he thinks he has a platform to win,” a person close to the mayor said.
A Brooklyn Democratic elected official who was also frequently in talks with the mayor said Adams was “considering a White House run in 2024 if Biden doesn’t seek re-election,” adding that Adams’ advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin was “running point” on the issue.
There is growing chatter that the gaffe-prone president — now 79 years old — may call it quits after one term, though he has privately insisted he will seek re-election.
Even a GOP lawmaker broached the topic with Adams.
“I said you really have to consider that you are young enough where you will have a life after the mayoralty 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,” he said.
While there is no active campaign or federal fundraising yet, the mayor has spent his first year in office barnstorming the country.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USAAdams’ Big Apple agenda — including dismantling state bail reform — has been stymied by left-wing party leaders in Albany. Adams has likewise positioned himself as an avowed enemy of the socialist wing.
It remains an open question so far whether Adams will be able to reduce the scourge of city crime, which has continued to soar during his administration. Polls show voters are losing patience.
If Adams did run, he would continue in a long tradition of Big Apple mayors who have sought the nation’s top job, including his three most recent predecessors, Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani.
No NYC mayor has ever gone on to take the nation’s top job.
Mayor Adams himself let slip that the idea was at least on his mind.
During an event at PS 125 in Harlem last Thursday, Adams joked to the crowd if he had been screened early for dyslexia “right now, we would be not saying just ‘Mr. Mayor,’ you’d probably be saying ‘Mr. President.'”
While there is no active campaign or federal fundraising yet, the mayor has spent his first year in office barnstorming the country. Earlier this month he was in Los Angeles glad-handing high rollers at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. In March he hit a cryptocurrency conference in Miami. That same month he was in Chicago with a press conference with that city’s mayor Lori Lightfoot and promised to make his crusade against gun violence into a national campaign.
“He is one of the best known black elected officials in the country,” said Chris Coffey, Co-CEO of the political consulting shop Tusk Strategies — which backed Adams’ mayoral opponent Andrew Yang. “The play works if Adams makes progress on crime and the president decides not to run. I think he would be crazy not to consider it.”
Adams denied he was thinking of running for president.
“That’s a silly, silly story. I never had a conversation about that and I love being mayor, and you can run the country from New York City,” he told The Post, adding he wasn’t looking at the 2028 election either. “I’m the mayor. That’s all I’m focused on.”
Additional reporting by Steven Vago
National Dems are calling in a new communications expert: Eric Adams
The New York mayor spoke last week at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event at the request of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
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National Dems are calling in a new communications expert: Eric Adams
The New York mayor spoke last week at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event at the request of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
He finished his speech by looking to the midterm elections.
“If you truly love this country, you love your neighbor and you fight for their freedoms, for their livelihood, for their families. That is who we are. That is why we fight. And that must be our message this fall.”
Adams’ national political ambitions don’t stop at speeches.
While his recent fundraising trips to Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami are ostensibly geared toward a second mayoral term, they’re really about building an infrastructure for a White House run, according to a political strategist close to the mayor’s orbit.
“He’s laying the groundwork,” the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to freely discuss the mayor, said in an interview. “I don’t know if he’s actually going to do it for 2024 or 2028, but he’s meeting national donors and national people and it’s to build a donor network and an apparatus.”
And Adams’ confidantes are trying to figure out how to broaden his appeal.
“They have asked whether there are people in different large cities he should meet with if he’s traveling to those cities,” a local Democratic insider told POLITICO, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
The inquiry came shortly before Adams, who discovered he was dyslexic in college, joked Monday at a press conference about dyslexia screening in schools that, had he discovered his learning disability earlier in life, “We would not be saying just ‘Mr. Mayor,’ you’d probably be saying, ‘Mr. President.’”
Adams adviser Evan Thies said the mayor’s new national political role has nothing to do with a prospective White House bid. “He’s getting involved to help Democrats so that Democrats can help New York,” Thies said.
But Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist who helped take Pete Buttigieg from the mayor of a mid-sized Indiana town to the presidential campaign stage, said Adams would be a strong White House contender.
“Eric Adams is a Democrat who can appeal to voters across different racial, economic and educational demographics,” Smith said in an interview. “And that’s a voice we really need in the Democratic Party right now — especially when we are at risk of becoming a party that only appeals to people with college degrees.”
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Eric Adams has a slightly higher chance of being President than Bill De Blasio
If he even makes it to the primaries, he will get MAYBE 2% of the vote
If he even makes it to the primaries, he will get MAYBE 2% of the vote
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RIP
Adams and the NYPD are a total failure
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Most people I talk to are done with him off the train shootings. He’s so new and insulated by the political class I don’t think they are even polling on him yet.
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Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
not looking forward to him as mayor at all
@storyteller @No1 you gotta drop hit for us on how much of a shytty politician Adams is.
And this nikka has the audacity to run for president.
I have more faith in Beto
And this nikka has the audacity to run for president.
I have more faith in Beto
