Eric Adams Responds To Cuomo's Call For Mayor Candidates To Pledge Dropout To Stop Mamdani

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During a press conference on Monday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams spoke about former Governor and NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo's proposal for mayoral candidates to drop out and endorse the highest polling candidate to prevent NYC Democratic Mayoral Nominee Zohran Mamdani from winning the general election.

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00:00and jay yes sir good morning yes um you know there's a there's a proposal out there and i

00:06know you're familiar with it that whoever it is who's polling the highest ahead of the election

00:12in november maybe september early october should be the one who goes on to face mongani in the

00:19general election governor cuomo now endorses the proposal told me a week ago that that was a

00:25non-starter for you you've had a few days to think about it has your opinion changed okay first you

00:31you have to really know cuomo i keep telling everyone i have a master's in public administration

00:37but a phd in andrew this proposal that was put out it was andrew's proposal he uses people to put

00:46things out that he really would like to come later and say okay i endorse what an independent person

00:52is doing he did this in albany he would create these panels in consulting groups and have them

00:58put proposals that he always wanted them to put out this is a typical andrew show i know this guy

01:07better than anyone i've studied him for years and so to think that some independent group came up with

01:13this idea no it was his idea he first plant these ideas into the universe and everyone says it then

01:21he comes and act like oh that's a good idea and i endorses it andrew is a double digit loser in the

01:29primary he lost by 13 points he had his opportunity he spent 25 million dollars to get his message out

01:40new york has heard it he did not sell it he didn't get out and campaign i said it over and over again you

01:47guys all heard me say he was coming out only on weekends he was not speaking to voters and now

01:54he's saying that we should trust him let me tell you what else he did while he was running for trump

01:59while he was contemplating running for office he would go around to black and brown leaders and say

02:05i will never run against eric adams i'm only running if eric is not going to be in the race i'm

02:11not going to run against them did he keep his word no he did not you can't trust the guy the guy would

02:19say and do anything to get elected new york city is not a consolation prize merely because he made the

02:27determination to step down as governor and then immediately after the primary he surrendered again

02:34the resiliency in the grit of a new yorker to run this complex city you can't give up during difficult

02:42times when he stepped down i stepped up no matter what i went through personally and no matter what

02:49the city went through i stayed here i was committed to serve out my time as mayor and deliver for the city

02:56hard times makes strong people and i have known hard times and that's why i'm able to

03:04endure all of these crises that this city had to face and look at where we are now crime is down

03:09jobs are up uh the city is thriving our children's voices will be heard on playground people are going

03:15to have 10 minutes walks to parks we have 83 percent rate for that now this city is moving in the right

03:21direction and andrew should for once in his life do what's best for this city and not what's best for him

03:28if you're so confident sir then why not just go with the proposal no and hit that and that's a great

03:33question he's saying that utilize uh polling to determine who should run against the democratic

03:40primary winner remember polls showed him up 40 points 40 points the day before the primary his

03:50spokesperson put out the results of a poll that said he was up 10 points he lost by 13 points so if we're

03:59going to use these uh methods of making this determination that they have already proven

04:05inaccurate why are we going to put the risk of new yorkies by someone who has not kept his word

04:12as he has a consistent record of not keeping his word why are we going to trust him now he's also stated

04:18after the election that let's wait to see what the rank choice numbers are going to be that's what he

04:24said the rank choice numbers came out now he has another idea so he will keep moving the goal

04:31post as much as possible this is just who he is he can't help himself don't get angry at him he just

04:37can't help himself trust me i served with him in in albany i watched what he did when he stepped down

04:45he just can't help himself and he you can't trust him at his word we do we do we do two more

04:52where have you been i haven't seen you in god knows how long i was on ditty

04:58seven weeks so that's done so i'm back thank you

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