Is Mayor Adams Using Trump or Trump Using Adams?

The deadline to switch parties is this Friday, but Adams could get a Wilson-Pakula to run in the Republican primary.

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Mayor Eric Adams exits the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse after making the first appearance in his corruption case on October 2, 2024 at New York City. Alex Kent/Getty Images

Supermarket mogul and former Republican candidate for New York mayor John Catsimatidis says Mayor Adams should “run on both lines” — meaning as a Republican and a Democrat — in his bid for re-election. The one catch, Mr. Catsimatidis tells the New York Sun, is that Mr. Adams would need an endorsement from President Trump.

“The only way Republicans will back him is if Donald Trump comes out and endorses him,” Mr. Catsimatidis says. “What I’m saying is run as a Republican. I think he’s going to run as a Democrat, too.”

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