The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board chided New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday after Adams dropped out of the mayoral race, arguing that his timing ensures New Yorkers will "get it good and hard" after the next election.

Adams announced on Sunday that he had decided to exit the mayoral race, an announcement that comes about a month away from election day. Socialist Zohran Mamdani appears to be the favorite, according to polls, with former Mayor Andrew Cuomo becoming the strongest candidate to challenge Mamdani.

"New York Mayor Eric Adams finally abandoned his campaign for re-election on Sunday, and the shame is he didn’t do it sooner," the outlet's editors wrote in a new op-ed. "He’d have given the city a better chance of defeating socialist Zohran Mamdani."

Adams' re-election campaign had been plagued by political drama, the editors argued. For instance, they noted Adams' apparent quid pro quo with the Trump administration to support their immigration enforcement measures in exchange for the Justice Department dropping a corruption investigation into Adams.

The Wall Street Journal's editors also argued that Adams would do a better job than Mamdani at addressing issues like public safety.

"The cliché is that voters in a democracy get the government they deserve, and if New Yorkers elect Mr. Mamdani they will get it good and hard," the editors wrote.

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