Mayor Eric Adams of New York, according to one Republican official and two people who are familiar with his considerations, quietly explore the run in the Republican primary state when looking for a way to a second functional official.
The mayor, Democrat, privately weighed for several weeks whether to change his party association or seek surrender to run in democratic and Republican primars. But the conversation has risen all the time President Trump’s justice department ordered prosecutors to release the accusation of corruption against him.
Mr. Adams spoke about his political possibilities on Monday with Mike Rendin, chairman of the Republican Party of Bronx, said Mr. Rendino. The mayor independently associated with Andrea Catsimatidis, chairman of the Republican Party Manhattan, although it was not clear whether the race was discussed, according to one of the people who are familiar with the negotiations.
“He just wanted to talk about pleasure,” Mr. Rendino said in an interview. “I said we don’t beat around the bush, apparently calling more than that.”
When the mayor forced him to run in the Republican primary state, Mr. Rendino said, spreading two potential ways. Mr. Adams could join the party, said the chairman. Or he could seek surrender, known as the Wilson Pakula certificate, from the leaders of the Republican Region to run on the election line without changing parties.
“He didn’t say what he wanted to do one way or another,” said Mr. Rendino.
Asked about the interviews on Wednesday, Mr. Adams re -confirmed that he was planning to run as a democrat, not a Republican, and soon would start collecting the signatures necessary to get to the vote.
“I’m not eating like a Republican,” the mayor said in a written statement.
People close to Mr. Adams reported that the situation was developing rapidly and that the mayor was investigating a wide range of possibilities, from running as independent to attempted competition on multiple party lines at once.
But even the start of discussions that were not previously reported emphasized how uncertain his political position happened a little more than four months before the primary day.
Mr. Adams is against a number of tight terms. The New Yords, including the mayor, must change the party’s association by Friday. And both Republican and democratic candidates are already competing for approval to try to deprive it of another term in the town hall.
It is not clear whether Mr. Trump or members of his administration played any role in discussions about the political future of the mayor.
Mr. Adams, a one -time Republican who was elected as a central democrat, has Mr. Trump tirelessly caused In the months since his accusation last September he visited the President at his golf club in Florida, participation in his inauguration and publicly promises to criticize him.
It seemed that the dance of the month paid off to Mr. Adams on Monday, when the Ministry of Justice, now under the control of Mr. Trump, said it would look for it Five federal criminal numbers fell against the mayor.
Mr. Adams’s interest in running in Republican primary could be a credible next step in many ways.
“People often say,” You sound like a democrat. “You seem to have left the party,” said Mr. Adams Recent conversation With Tucker Carlson, a former personality of Fox News. “No, the party left me and left the working class people.”
All of the recent polls painted a terrible picture for the position of Mr. Adams with a large democratic base of voters in the city. The vast majority of the New Yorkers do not agree with the work he does as the mayor, and all surveys have shown that they are trying to attract more than 10 percent of the democratic primary vote.
The intervention of the Ministry of Justice on Monday may have made Mr. Adams’ journey to obtain democratic support. His rivals and even devoted allies claimed that the decision of the ministry – which, according to him, liberated Mr. Adams to help promote immigration policy Mr. Trump and which allows prosecutors after the November elections to effectively give dangerous influence on the city on the city.
Switching political parties and running on several voting lines is not unheard of in New York’s policy. The most important recent example was the mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who successfully ran for re -election as independent in 2009, but won the Wilson Pakula certificate, which also competed on the Republican line.
Mr. Adams himself was registered as a Republican at the age of 90.
It is not clear that the Republican primary would be a bit easier for Mr. Adams than democratic. Despite his foreplay Mr. Trump, many of the primacy policies were unpopular with Republican voters in New York and their representatives.
The mayor, who is attached to the campaign funds, would also have to collect 15,000 signatures from registered Republican voters to get to the primary vote. And even if he won the Republican primary, he could face a difficult journey in November in a city where the Democrats greatly exceed the Republicans.
Many prominent Republicans seem to be absolutely against this idea.
“I only speak as one Republican elected clerk in this city, but I don’t see that this is happening, because the mayor is not in line with our policies,” said Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican member of the city.
Mr. Rendino, chairman of the bronx, said his district would be similarly skeptical.
“Would they welcome him?” No, it would be a very hard sale, ”he said. “How will 2,200 people explain, a migrant refuge for all men who put our throat in the bronx?”
The Republicans began to co -relocate around the candidate Curtis Sliwa, a well -known founder of the guardian angels who encountered Mr. Adams in the general elections of 2021.
But privately the party leaders said they were still waiting for Mr. Trump to intercede on behalf of Mr. Adams. Even Mr Sliwa said in an interview that the president may have a considerable rocking.
“The whole idea is that the president or one of the president’s men or women can call the regional chairman and tell them,” I want you to support Adams and give him Wilson Pakulu, “he said.” “
To win the Wilson Pakula certificate, Mr. Adams would most likely need support for at least three of the five chairs in the neighborhood or most members of the New York party committee.
Richard Barsamian, the Republican President of Brooklyn, said “He has absolutely no interviews with Mayor Adams.”
Tony Nunzio, Chairman of the Republicans Queens, said he hadn’t heard from the mayor.
Mr. Sliwa, who hosts the radio show at Mr. Catsimatidis, said he was still worried about it.
“All the insiders are talking to me,” he said. “They say,” You know, it’s a very real possibility. “”
Dana Rubinstein, Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum The report contributed.
