New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to start his own political party to run for a second term—an unorthodox strategy that he thinks is his best path to win re-election.No longer encumbered by his bribery case,

New York City Mayor Eric Adams will skip the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent, he announced Thursday.The news came a day after his federal corruption case was dismissed by a judge.

Mayor Eric Adams faced an uphill battle in the June 24 Democratic primary, which has drawn a crowded field of candidates. He will run for re-election as an independent instead.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams' historic federal corruption case has been dropped. Judge Dale Ho has agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to drop the charges against Adams, but he did so "with prejudice.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will pull out of the city’s Democratic primary and will instead run for reelection as an independent candidate.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to run his re-election campaign as an independent, abandoning the Democratic primary, he told Politico on Thursday.

The mayor said the drawn-out dismissal of his federal case made it “impossible” to mount a reelection campaign in time for the Democratic primary.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams will skip the Democratic primary and run as an independent, according to a new report. Adams, whose legal troubles have evaporated after he appeared to cozy up to President Donald Trump, told Politico that he plans to “mount a real independent campaign” that relies on “a solid base of people” outside of Manhattan.

Judge Dale E. Ho refused to let the government leave open the prospect of reinstating charges against the mayor. But he acknowledged the president’s power to determine the fate of prosecutions.