Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City’s mayoral race amid escalating pressure to clear the crowded field in a last-ditch attempt to stop socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election to City Hall. “Although our successes… I know I cannot continue my campaign,” he says in the video. 5 Eric Adams has officially dropped out of the 2025 NYC mayoral race. Polls show Cuomo has the best chance of besting Mamdani in November’s election, so long as it’s a one-on-one contest. The mayor and the Trump administration had denied allegations of a “quid pro quo” where Adams would help with immigration enforcement in exchange for feds getting his case dropped.