New York City mayor Eric Adams and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (Left: Photo by Andrea Renault/Star Max/GC Image, Right: Photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images)
"Andrew Cuomo is running from his record. Bail reform. I had to fix that. Cannabis Law. I had to fix that. Raise the Age [which ended automatically prosecuting 16- and 17-year-olds as adults]. I had to fix that," Adams said in a Thursday interview with the Post.
"You look at my record, and then you compare it to his record. I had to fix his mess. He created a mess for our city, and I got to fix it," the mayor added.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo criticized both Mamdani and Eric Adams in statements this weekend. (Kent Nishimura)
"Look at [Mandani’s] policies: once you empty out Rikers Island, that’s a major impact," Adams told The New York Post, referencing Mamdani's plan to reduce the prison's population. "It’s going to go back to the communities that crime came from."
Adams, a former police officer, went on to criticize Mamdani's plan to have social workers respond to domestic violence calls rather than police.
Adams referenced NYPD Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, and his partner Jason Rivera, 22, who were shot and killed responding to a domestic violence call in 2022.
"Mora and Rivera, the two cops who were shot in the beginning of my [mayoral] career, they died and were assassinated responding to a domestic violence call," Adams said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Adams, Cuomo and Mamdani campaigns for comment, but they did not immediately respond.
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Mamdani secured the Democratic nomination last month, leaving voters who are not among the far left to choose between two Democrats-turned-independents in Adams and Cuomo, and the Republican Sliwa.
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