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Labor Day is now in our collective rearview mirror, and in New York City that means the candidates for mayor should finally start flexing their muscle campaigning in the five boroughs. Mayor Eric Adams has the most challenging race ahead of him, running a distant fourth in the four-man field. Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who is in second place, had said it would take one of the candidates dropping out to improve the chances of another candidate surpassing the lead Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani had in the polls after the mayoral primary in June. So, should Mayor Adams consider dropping out, or can he jump start his chances for re-election? Joe Borelli is the former New York City Council minority leader. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to realistically handicap Adams’ chances of winning now that we’ve reached September.
Borelli told host Larry Mendte that it will probably take a miracle for Adams to hold off the inevitable: “Whether there’s a change in attitude or not is almost inconsequential because he is running out of runway. He’s got to get out of this last-place position. He has been banking on the money that he raised from real estate, from private donors, et cetera, to be out to use starting today. I mean, he said it was going to start right after Labor Day. So, we’re going to see hopefully some signs of life out of him, but I think he’s realizing it’s going to be tougher to climb from last place into second place as it is for maybe Cuomo to stay in second place and consolidate votes.”
When prompted about another hot-button topic, how officials in blue cities and states would jump at the National Guard’s help if a Democratic President made the offer, Borelli was quick to concur. “It was Kathy Hochul, the O.G. of bring in the National Guard, and then six months into the program she announced it was going so well in the subways that she added another 250 National Guardsmen to the New York City subways, and it was the right move. It actually worked.”
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