Source: Politics<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014 New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday he is ending his reelection campaign, a move that virtually ensures he will lose in November and seals his fate as the city\u2019s first one-term mayor since David Dinkins.<\/p>\n
Adams\u2019 decision to end his campaign comes after anemic polling, the loss of millions of dollars in public matching funds and record-low approval ratings driven partly by the indelible mark of President Donald Trump on Adams\u2019 defunct criminal bribery case.<\/p>\n
Moderate Democrats \u2014 and even Trump himself \u2014 have long hoped to winnow down the general election field to give Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, a better chance of catching up to frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who won an upset victory in the June Democratic primary.<\/p>\n