New York’s mayor warms to Trump and doesn’t rule out becoming a Republican
LA TimesDemocratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams Adams won office on a centrist platform, but his rhetoric has taken a noticeable rightward turn in the weeks since Trump’s election victory, particularly on immigration. New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears open to leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a Republican, declining to rule out a future change in political allegiance during a pair of interviews that came as he has increasingly warmed to President-elect Donald Trump. Rather than restricting cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as he once promised, Adams recently expressed a willingness to roll back the city’s so-called sanctuary policies, and he plans to meet with Trump’s top border official over concerns about what the mayor said was the “rising illegal alien crime rate in New York City.” He has also praised those in Trump’s orbit, including Elon Musk, who has claimed falsely that Democrats are illegally “importing” migrants to garner votes. To serve his own narrow self-interests, he is clearly prepared to betray them.” Zellnor Myrie, a state senator who is also challenging Adams in the primary, said that “at a time when the Republican Party has never been more out of line with New York values, we need a mayor who isn’t scared to call himself a Democrat.” “Instead of playing footsie with the next president, we need a mayor with the courage to stand up for our city,” Myrie wrote on X. Adams on Friday did distance himself from the Trump administration’s potential plans to carry out mass deportations, saying, “You know, I’m not for mass deportation, but I’m not for mass saturation.” Associated Press writers Izaguirre reported from Albany, N.Y., Offenhartz from New York.
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