White House discussed offering Adams a post to aid Cuomo in NYC race

White House advisers have privately discussed offering New York City Mayor Eric Adams a poste in the Trump administration in an effort to narrow the crowded November mayoral field and improve former governor Andrew Cuomo’s chances of defeating Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, according to people familiar with the discussions. The talks, which also reportedly touched on a possible role for Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, have intensified a fraught final stretch of a race already reshaped by party cleavages and competing centrist and progressive coalitions.

Persons briefed on the matter said options floated included a position at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and even an ambassadorship, though it was unclear how involved the president himself was in the conversations. The aim, those people said, would be to induce Adams and Sliwa to withdraw so the general election becomes a one on one contest between Cuomo, running as an independent, and Mamdani, the 33 year old democratic socialist who routed Cuomo in the June Democratic primary.

Adams’s campaign pushed back, saying the mayor has had no discussions with the White House about leaving the race and that he...