New York City Mayor Eric Adams dropped his re-election bid on Sunday, leaving the race to become the city's next mayor likely between Democrat Zohran Mamdani and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Adams had been trailing far behind Mamdani and Cuomo, who is running as an independent, according to public opinion polls, with Mamdani holding a sizeable lead ahead of the November 4 election. The fear among Mamdani’s critics had been that Adams and Cuomo would split the opposition vote, giving Mamdani an easy victory. The former New York City police officer has had a brutally unpopular tenure as the leader of America’s largest city, which is heavily Democratic. Recent polls had support for his re-election in the single digits along with Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.