With less than four weeks before early voting begins, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced yesterday that he would bow out of his reelection campaign, making him the first since David Dinkins to serve a single term.
In a nearly nine-minute announcement video on X, Adams lamented the Campaign Finance Board’s decision to deny him matching funds, blaming it for preventing him from running a serious campaign. Turning to his legacy, the Mayor said that he was proud of “making this city better to those who have been failed by government”.
Though many today instinctively think of Adams’s corruption charges as his primary legacy, he has achieved some noteworthy successes. He entered office amid spiralling crime and two unprecedented crises, Covid-19 and the influx of hundreds of thousands of foreign migrants since 2022. He will leave City Hall on New Year’s Day with a mixed record.
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John Ketcham is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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