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New York Mayor Adams vows to stay in race and seek re-election

NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared on Friday he would continue to seek re-election, following days of reports that President Donald Trump planned to offer him a federal job in exchange for dropping out of the mayoral race.

Trump has vowed to do what he can to stop the Democratic nominee and frontrunner, 33-year-old liberal state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, from becoming the next mayor of his native city. Earlier this week, Trump said he would like to see two of the three other main candidates - Adams, former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa - step aside to avoid splitting the anti-Mamdani vote.

"I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one-on-one, and I think that's a race that could be won," Trump told reporters on Thursday.

Adams said press reports of him being in Washington for meetings about his future were wrong, but he did not directly address whether he had been in talks with Trump's team.

"I am running and I am going to beat Mamdani," Adams told reporters gathered at the mayor's official residence, Gracie Mansion.

"The voters will determine who's the next mayor of this city, and I will respect the outcome from the voters," Adams said, declining to take questions from reporters.