New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani holds a campaign event with the healthcare worker's union on September 24, 2025, in New York City. Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks during the Crypto Summit in New York, on May 20, 2025. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images; Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Blumencranz complimented Adams for doing something "rare in politics" by putting the "city ahead of himself" in a move he says gives New Yorkers "one last chance to unite around a credible alternative to extremism."
Fox News polling shows support for both Cuomo and Sliwa slightly increases with Adams out of the race, but Mamdani still holds a significant lead, leading Cuomo by 16 points among likely voters.
Republican Inna Vernikov, a New York City councilwoman, told Fox News Digital that Adams "made the right choice" dropping out of the race but pointed out that his name will still be on the ballot and called on him to "ensure no vote is wasted" in order to use "every vote" to defeat Mamdani.
UNEARTHED MAMDANI CLIP REVEALS HOW HIS UPBRINGING MADE HIM OPEN TO BEING CALLED 'RADICAL,' SOCIALIST
Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa is interviewed by Fox News Digital, in New York City on August 18, 2025 (Paul Steinhauser - Fox News)
In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said that Mamdani "will prove to be one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican Party."
"He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him? This ideology has failed, always, for thousands of years. It will fail again, and that’s guaranteed!" Trump said.
Mamdani dismissed the Truth Social post, telling reporters that Trump is "going through the stages of grief" regarding Mamdani's mayoral campaign.
Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
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