New York Times: “In many ways, Mr. Adams’s choice to end his flailing re-election campaign was the most conventional thing he had done in some time. He was acceding, for once, to the laws of political gravity as he weighed how best to position himself for a post-mayoral future.”
“That set of options, like much of his last year, is already shadowed by the more brazen gambit he has long appeared to embrace amid federal corruption charges and the wholesale collapse of his inner circle: becoming a MAGA-amenable mayor of America’s signature big blue city and seeing where that might take him.”
