The mercy killing of the Eric Adams reelection campaign finally happened in broad daylight on Sunday.

The mayor, in a video that featured him sitting in front of a photo of his late mother with a classic Frank Sinatra tune playing in the background, finally admitted what 90% of New Yorkers already knew – he had no path to victory and no hope of beating front-runner Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee.

Like any mystery movie that flashes a gun in the first scene, there was a foreshadowing of his downfall extremely early in his ascent to City Hall. That event indicated to me that a premature ending was likely to happen at some point.

The night of Adams’ primary victory party in June 2021, he and his team recklessly decided to banish two of the more respected political journalists in

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