New York City Mayor Eric Adams , whose re-election campaign slogan promised “Always Delivers. Never quits,” announced he was ending his run Sunday with only five weeks left until election day.

“Despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign,” Adams said in an eight-minute video posted to X, formerly Twitter.

Adams, who had been polling in last place for several weeks, blamed “repeated rumors of my departure” as well as the New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB), which persistently denied Adams’ requests for matching public funding, as the reasons he was leaving the race. According to the CFB, they did not grant him public election funding because his campaign did not submit the necessary paperwork and “impeded” the board’s independent investigation into whe

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