The candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, called on Wednesday that the White House is considering administration jobs for Mayor Eric Adams and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa a “affront our democracy.”
The New York Times reported Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s advisors have discussed the mayor in the current one, Eric Adams, who runs as an independent, a position in the administration to clear the field and establish a face face to face between Mamdani and the former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, who lost the primary Democrats before Mamdani and is now an independent. The conversations have also involved Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, The Times reported.
In mid -July after the Democratic primaries, Trump told journalists that Cuomo should remain in the race.
“I think I should stay. I think he has a chance,” he said. “You will run a hard campaign.”
The candidate for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdanni, attends the press conference in New York City, on September 2,
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In August, he asked if he had spoken with Cuomo about his career as mayor of New York City, Trump said: “I have not done it, no, I have not done it.”
Mamdani said Wednesday about the Times report: “Today, we have learned what New Yorkers have suspected for a long time: that Andrew Cuomo is Donald Trump’s choice to be the next mayor of this city.”
He continued: “Today’s news that the White House is considering work offers for Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa, it is not news that involves meaning due to the impact it will have on this race. We feel as safe as we did yesterday that we will win this race in November.”
However, this is an affront to our democracy, an affront to what makes us proud to be Americans, that we choose our own leaders, not that they can choose themselves, not that they can be chosen by the president of the United States, the same president who stopped a 6 -year -old girl from a public school system in the city of New York He reduced the benefits of Hungy’s benefits through the five -year -old girl … of the New Yorkers of his health insurance, now he seeks to undermine the fabric of this city. “
An emotional Mamdani emphasized that New York “is not for sale.”
“That is what this news has revealed to us today, and that is what this campaign is fighting, not simply any other candidate that is on the electoral ticket, but the notion that New York City is on sale. We know that this city will decide its own future, and we know that they are the New Yorkers that we will resort to make that decision in November, not in the White House in Washington, DC” “
The Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, arrives to attend a tape cutting ceremony in his Queens campaign office in Queens, New York, August 14, 2025.
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The Adams campaign denied that he has spoken with Trump and said he was not offered or asked for a role in the Trump administration.
“Mayor Adams has made it clear that he will not respond to all the rumors that arise,” said campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro, in a statement to ABC News. “Mayor Adams has not met with Donald Trump, does not create noise,” said campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro, in a statement to ABC News. “He is not abandoning the race. The mayor is totally committed to winning these elections, with millions of New Yorkers preparing to cast their votes. His history is clear: the crime is inactive, the works are active and has been constantly defended for working families. Mayor Adams focuses on building that progress and gaining four more years to continue delivering to the people of New York.”
Sliwa told ABC News that the White House had not contacted him, and added that he is focused on New York.
“I am the only candidate in an important line of the party that can defeat Mamdani, and I am committed to bringing this fight to the election,” he said.
ABC News has communicated with the Cuomo campaign for its reaction.
The White House has not responded to the request for ABC News comments.
The candidate for mayor of New York City, Curtis Sliwa, in the New York City Metro system, August 18, 2025.
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Mamdani was asked Wednesday by a journalist if he was angry. He said he was, pointing out “Trastienda offers” that alienate New Yorkers, and their winning margins about Cuomo could have encouraged Trump to get involved.
“I am angry. I am angry because we often think of this only in terms of the dynamics of politics. But the reason why so many New Yorkers are fed up with politics, as they know is for news like this, backroom agreements, corrupt agreements, all of which serve to increase the sense of discontent and despair, since it refers to the people who feel about the people who feel about the people Having defeated and defeated the votes, votes, votes, votes, and for knowing that, and for knowing that he has defeated and defeated the votes, votes, votes, the votes of the votes, and for knowing that, and for knowing that he has defeated and defeated the votes, the votes of the votes. Old government as an invitation to collaborate with Donald Trump, “Mamdani added.
When asked what is his message directly for Eric Adams, Mamdani said he does not believe that any mayor candidate should be considering making agreements with the administration.
“I do not think that anyone who seeks to represent the people of this city should take a job with the administration that is making it difficult for the people of the city to provide the place they call home … My problem is the work that is being carried out at this time in this type of conversations, in this type of meetings, subverts the will of the Democrats throughout the city, all in the interest of Donald Trump.”
Mamdani said that he also sees “many ethical problems with this news” and has difficulty believing what he says is the “always changing history of Mayor Adams.”
