New York City Mayor Eric Adams dropped his re-election bid on Sunday. (File Photo)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams dropped his re-election bid on Sunday, leaving the race to become the city’s next mayor likely between Democrat Zohran Mamdani and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Adams had been trailing far behind Mamdani and Cuomo, who is running as an independent, according to public opinion polls, with Mamdani holding a sizeable lead ahead of the November 4 election. Adams had been struggling to raise money.

“Despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my reelection campaign,” Adams said in a post on X.

Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, has alarmed much of the New York business community and some within the Democratic Party with his leftist views.

The fear among

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