Eric Adams, as was becoming apparent for many months, will be a one-term mayor.

Adams, who announced he was dropping his reelection bid on Sunday, has long been politically doomed. Multiple corruption scandals have embroiled his administration, and he and his closest aides were indicted. Even before the indictments arrived, he was bleeding out support. Adams was not a mayor devoid of accomplishments, but he had fewer of them than his predecessors and rarely seemed to be engaged with the mechanics of governing. New Yorkers wearied of his act, and it became clear, more than a year ago, he had no serious path to a second term. The last incumbent mayor to fail to win another term, David Dinkins in 1993, at least went down fighting in a narrow loss to Rudy Giuliani. Adams will slink out of Gracie Mansion with barely a whimper.

The last questions hanging over the general election are if all the Adams supporters will defect to Andrew Cuomo and if this will be enough for the former governor, who resigned in disgrace four years ago, to save his campaign. Adams was polling in........

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