Eric Adams’s Fund-Raising in Last Two Months Plummets to $19,000
The New York Times
Mayor Eric Adams’s meager fund-raising total is a strong signal of his campaign’s dormancy.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City raised only $19,000 for his re-election over the last two months, a remarkably low fund-raising total for a Democratic mayoral candidate and unfathomably low for an incumbent.
The meager haul seems the clearest sign yet that his campaign is barely functioning, even as Mr. Adams insists that he is running for a second term despite record low approval ratings. He has not started to hold campaign events; top allies have abandoned him for former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo; and his campaign staff is so skeletal that its spokesman, Todd Shapiro, only came aboard last week.
And his latest fund-raising total would put him at the very bottom of major candidates during the recent fund-raising period.
Mr. Cuomo raised $1.5 million in 13 days. Zohran Mamdani, a progressive state lawmaker, raised $840,000 during the recent filing period from January to March and is on track to have $7 million with public matching funds.
Mr. Adams, who was indicted on federal corruption charges last year, has about $3 million in his campaign coffers from earlier fund-raising, putting him third behind Mr. Mamdani and Brad Lander, the city comptroller, who each have more than $3.5 million in their campaign accounts.
But Mr. Adams raised less during this period than any major candidate, including Michael Blake, a former state lawmaker, and Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels and the Republican candidate for mayor in 2021. The mayor also raised less than Corinne Fisher, a stand-up comedian who took in $100,000.
