{"id":13818,"date":"2025-09-28T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eric-adams-ends-reelection-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:17:23","slug":"eric-adams-ends-reelection-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eric-adams-ends-reelection-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams ends reelection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Adams\u2019 decision to end his campaign comes after anemic polling, the loss of millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}