President Trump, if you decide to get involved in this year’s mayoral race, do what’s right for the city we all love: Back Eric Adams.
With his commitment to public safety and civic pride, Adams has shown he deserves a second term in Gracie Mansion.
He has stood up to the left-wing legislators of Albany and the City Council, the radicals who want to legalize theft, hold no one on bail and empty all the jails.
For the first half of this year, New York enjoyed the lowest number of shootings since the city started keeping track.
That didn’t happen by accident.
Socialist Zohran Mamdani would reverse all that progress.
The “defund the police” activist would hobble the NYPD, drive away businesses and make the streets unsafe.
We agree Mamdani must be stopped.
But don’t believe that Andrew Cuomo, who already failed to beat Zohran once, is the answer.
He’s everything at once
Reports are that Andrew Cuomo’s campaign is heavily lobbying you to help him in the New York City mayoral race.
Don’t listen to them, Mr. President: You know as well as we do that Cuomo cannot be trusted — except to betray anyone and everyone as fits his convenience.
For starters, consider how he treated you during your first term, casting doubt on the “Trump vaccine.”
Then, once Democrats decided it was their vaccine, Cuomo was a leader of the “you must get jabbed or else you’ll be fired” crew.
Cuomo was for fracking until he was against fracking.
He was for charter schools until he was against charter schools.
He signed all of the “no bail” laws and other “reforms” that caused crime to skyrocket, but now claims he would “fix” them.
And he still refuses to admit those laws were a mistake.
Heck, he won’t admit to any mistake, ever.
How wormy is he?
On Thursday (after planting stories to the contrary), Cuomo flatly denied talking to you recently.
He’s also blatantly contradicting himself on how hard he’ll “fight Trump”: He recently told business leaders that he’s not “personally” looking for conflict with the president.
Hah!
A month ago, in advance of the Democratic primary, he was vowing he’d “spend eight years in Washington” fighting against your agenda.
No: If you care about the city’s future, the man to support is Eric Adams.
Adams was one of the few Democrats who stood up to Joe Biden, telling the truth about the massive border crisis.
And for that, the previous administration punished him and New York City.
Found his footing
There have been missteps, but Adams has lately found his footing — particularly by finding a great police commissioner in Jessica Tisch.
Another positive sign: The Police Academy just graduated its largest class in years.
Qualified young folks want to join New York’s Finest, confident that they have a commish and mayor who’ll have their backs.
An Adams re-election would mean that excellent work will continue.
A Commissioner Tisch won’t be there under a Cuomo or Mamdani.
We’re sure Cuomo’s pollsters painted a picture about the former governor’s chances, but they were wrong in the primary and they are wrong now.
All Cuomo is doing is selfishly splitting the vote, trying to hold on to one last shred of relevancy.
Adams is supported in his re-election bid by all of the police unions and all the major black churches.
You know New York, Mr. President, and understand that’s a remarkable coalition — a perfect start on building a majority in November.