After months of speculation about the status of his largely dormant and seemingly doomed reelection campaign, New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that he is no longer seeking the Democratic nomination and will, instead, run as an independent candidate in the general election. His announcement comes just one day after U.S. District Judge Dale Ho officially dismissed the federal government’s pending corruption case against him, which accused Adams of soliciting illegal bribes from foreign nationals in exchange for luxury travel perks.

In a six-minute direct-to-camera video shared to social media on April 3, Adams said that more than 25,000 city residents signed his Democratic petition, but the drawn-out process of dismissing the case against him made it impossible to mount a reelection campaign for the June 24 primary. The mayor said that while he’s running as an independent,........

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