NYC Mayor Eric Adams shocks politics with independent re-election bid

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3/4/2025

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00:00My fellow New Yorkers, like so many of you, I grew up in a city that failed my family.

00:08My mother raised six children on her own, working three jobs, yet even when her hard

00:16work was met with injustice and indignity, she soldiered on.

00:22She believed in New York.

00:25She taught me that you can never do wrong by doing right.

00:30That resilient spirit is the essence of New York, and her example and the grit of everyday

00:36New Yorkers is what inspired me to public service and what gives me strength today.

00:44It's a simple truth.

00:45New Yorkers are strong, and they deserve strong leadership.

00:50And when New Yorkers worry about their bills at the kitchen table or feeling safe on the

00:56subway platform, they don't expect a political party to help.

01:01They want leadership from a person who understands their struggle and their story.

01:08There isn't a liberal or conservative way to fix New York, but there is a right way

01:13and a wrong way.

01:15And true leaders don't just know the right path.

01:18They have the guts to take it.

01:22I've always put New York's people before politics and party, and I always will.

01:28Some leaders choose rhetoric over results and fail to make working people their North Star.

01:34But the values of a working class base, pro-public safety, pro-worker, pro-quality of life, are

01:42still there, standing strong, even if many who share them have left the party.

01:50Those are my values, New York's values, and I will always fight for them.

01:56I had hoped to fight for them again in a Democratic primary for mayor, and more than 25,000

02:03New Yorkers signed my Democratic primary petition.

02:07But the dismissal, the bogus case against me dragged on too long, making it impossible

02:13to mount a primary campaign while these false accusations were held over me.

02:20But I'm not a quitter.

02:21I'm a New Yorker.

02:24And that is why today, though I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forego

02:31the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent

02:37candidate in the general election.

02:40I firmly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, not

02:47leaders pulled at by the extremists on the far left or the far right, but instead those

02:54rooted in the common middle, the place where the vast majority of New Yorkers are firmly

03:00planted.

03:05I know that the accusations leveled against me may have shaken your confidence in me,

03:13and that you may rightly have questions about my conduct.

03:17And let me be clear, although the charges against me were false, I trusted people I

03:24should not have.

03:26And I regret that.

03:28But the issues I face are nothing compared to yours.

03:32Rising costs, public safety concerns, deep concerns about the future.

03:39All the candidates in this race will tell you that they have solutions to all that.

03:45You should hear them out.

03:47But you should also ask them where they were and what they did over the last four years

03:55to address those concerns before they were running for mayor.

04:01Some were advocating against more police, even if they are for them now.

04:06Some were fighting the pro-growth strategies of our administration.

04:10Some even sought to limit housing production.

04:15Some voted to give more of your tax dollars to other cities and towns in this state while

04:21refusing to change laws that let dangerous criminals run wild on our streets.

04:29And some sat at home and did absolutely nothing.

04:34I humbly put my record up against any of these other candidates.

04:39While they were playing politics or sitting on a couch, my administration was building

04:44record levels of housing, driving down crime, distributing $30 billion in benefits to low

04:51and middle-income New Yorkers, and creating the most jobs ever in our city's history.

05:00As Mayor Lindsey said, when he successfully ran as an independent candidate for mayor,

05:06I had made mistakes.

05:08And I am saying to you, my fellow New Yorkers, so did I.

05:13But it was not a mistake to invest more in housing than any other mayor.

05:19It wasn't a mistake to put a cop on every train.

05:22It wasn't a mistake to increase the value of housing vouchers and earn income tax credit

05:28to the highest levels ever.

05:32And it wasn't a mistake to put politics aside, defy my party when needed, and speak with

05:39the voice of working New Yorkers.

05:43Ultimately, it will be up to you who runs this city for the next four years.

05:49As someone who has always fought for you and who is accountable to only you, I hope I can

05:56earn your vote.

05:58God bless you, New York, and God bless the great city that we live in.

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