By Joseph Ax and Daniel Trotta

NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared on Friday he would continue to seek re-election, following days of reports that President Donald Trump planned to offer him a federal job in exchange for dropping out of the mayoral race.

Trump has vowed to do what he can to stop the Democratic nominee and frontrunner, 33-year-old liberal state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, from becoming the next mayor of his native city. Earlier this week, Trump said he would like to see two of the three other main candidates - Adams, former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa - step aside to avoid splitting the anti-Mamdani vote.

Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, has alarmed much of the New York business community and some withi

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