New York City Mayor Eric Adams planning 2024 White House run: Report

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is eyeing a White House run if US President Joe Biden does not seek a second term in 2024, City Hall insiders told The New York Post. No NYC mayor has ever gone on to take the nation’s top job.

Adams took New York mayor’s office shortly after the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop at midnight in Times Square. He is scheduled to serve for four years. 

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However, as per New York Post’s sources, the Democrat from the  20th district thinks that he has a platform to run for national office. 

“Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024. He has said that repeatedly. He thinks New York is a national platform. He thinks the national party has gotten too far to the left and he thinks he has a platform to win,” a person close to the mayor told the Post. 

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Adams has been working to dismantle state bail reform. In February heshared his plan to fight crime in New York City.

“If I am not getting the things I laid out … I still have an obligation to keep the city safe.” He has faced opposition from left-wing party leaders in Albany.

As per a Brooklyn Democratic elected official, Adams was considering a White House run in 2024 if Biden doesn’t seek re-election. The New York City mayor’s advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin was “running point on the issue, NY Post reported. 

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“I said you really have to consider that you are young enough where you will have a life after the mayoralty and if you solve the crime problem there would be a lot of interest in a big city Democrat, African American with progressive values but who mediated the crime problem in a major city,” a GOP lawmaker said, as per the report. 

Several of Adams’ predecessors – Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani – have run for the US President’s office.