If Joe Biden does not look for a 2nd term, confidantes and City Hall insiders notified The New York Post, that New York City Mayor Eric Adams may be considering a White House run.
“Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024. He has said that repeatedly. He thinks New York is a national platform. He thinks the national party has gotten too far to the left and he thinks he has a platform to win,” a person close to the mayor said.
A Brooklyn Democratic picked authorities who was also frequently in talks with the mayor specified Adams was “thinking of a White Home run in 2024 if Biden does not look for re-election,” consisting of that Adams’ consultant Ingrid Lewis-Martin was “running point” on the issue.
There is growing chatter that the gaffe-prone president– now 79 years of ages– may call it quits after one term, though he has in fact individually insisted he will search for re-election.
Even a GOP legislator brought up the subject with Adams.
“I said you really have to consider that you are young enough where you will have a life after the mayoralty and if you solve the crime problem there would be a lot of interest in a big city Democrat, African American with progressive values but who mediated the crime problem in a major city,” he said.
Adams’ Big Apple agenda– including taking apart state bail reform– has actually been stymied by left-wing event leaders in Albany. Adams has likewise located himself as an avowed challenger of the socialist wing of the party.
It remains an open issue up until now whether Adams will have the capability to lower the scourge of city crime, which has really continued to escalate throughout his administration. Polls show that the people are losing their patience.
If Adams did run, he would continue in a long custom-made of Huge Apple mayors who have really searched for the country’s leading task, including his 3 newest predecessors, Costs de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani.
No NYC mayor has really ever gone on to take the country’s leading job.
Mayor Adams himself let slip that the principle was at least on his mind.
Throughout an occasion at PS 125 in Harlem last Thursday, Adams joked to the crowd if he had really been assessed early for dyslexia “right now, we would be not saying just ‘Mr. Mayor,’ you’d probably be saying ‘Mr. President.’”
While there is no active task or federal fundraising yet, the mayor has actually invested his very first year in workplace barnstorming the country. Formerly this month he remained in Los Angeles glad-handing high-stakes gamblers at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. In March he struck a cryptocurrency conference in Miami. That precise very same month he remained in Chicago with an interview with that city’s mayor Lori Lightfoot and assured to make his crusade against weapon violence into a nationwide project.
“He is one of the best known black elected officials in the country,” said Chris Coffey, Co-CEO of the political consulting shop Tusk Strategies — which backed Adams’ mayoral opponent Andrew Yang. “The play works if Adams makes progress on crime and the president decides not to run. I think he would be crazy not to consider it.”
Adams soundly denied he was considering a run for president.
“That’s a silly, silly story. I never had a conversation about that and I love being mayor, and you can run the country from New York City,” he told The Post, adding he wasn’t looking at the 2028 election either. “I’m the mayor. That’s all I’m focused on.”
