Mayor Eric Adams, seeking to halt front-runner Zohran Mamdani 's likely victory in the race to replace him, on Thursday endorsed onetime rival Andrew M. Cuomo, a stunning turnaround to back a man he last month called "a snake and a liar."

Two days before early voting begins Saturday , Adams and Cuomo embraced outside a Manhattan housing project and promised to spend the race's waning days out appealing to voters.

"We’re fighting against a snake-oil salesman who has sold us a bill of goods," said Adams, who withdrew from the race last month after claiming for months he was the best candidate to beat Mamdani.

Every recent public opinion poll has predicted that Mamdani will win. Adams, 65, called Mamdani, 34 and a naturalized U.S. citizen who moved to New York City at age 7, "the kin

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