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The mayor’s race has taken another turn this week as the president has moved to put his thumb on the scale of New York’s local election.

President Donald Trump is reportedly pushing Mayor Eric Adams to ditch his campaign for reelection, and is prepared to offer him a position in his administration to entice him to go.

Adams, who’s been polling in the single digits, has denied there’s any truth to those claims, saying “I have never been promised a job” on Thursday .

But he has a history of saying one thing and doing another with his campaign, like w

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