Adams Gains Key Religious Support as Election Looms

With less than three months until voters head to the polls, Mayor Eric Adams’ reelection campaign gained significant traction Tuesday as nearly 100 religious leaders from across New York City assembled at City Hall to show their support.

Priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, and sheikhs were among the faith leaders praising Adams’ stewardship and reaffirming their faith in the city’s future.
Adams Stresses Faith as a Leadership Guide
Adams, seeking another term as an independent, has a longstanding connection to the faith-based communities throughout the five boroughs. Despite recent legal and political challenges, their backing for Adams has held firm.

During Tuesday’s event, Adams acknowledged that his personal faith has influenced numerous administrative decisions and provided resilience during turbulent periods.

“The city is a better place because of this administration and what we accomplished,” Adams said. “Yes, you can have the skill, yes, you can have the people, yes, you can have the agencies. But in administrations with the absence of God, they will never reach their full compassionate commitment that we have.”

Adams also stressed the need to form alliances across party boundaries, a central aspect of his campaign as he seeks a broad coalition in November.
Cuomo and Mamdani Present Alternative Approaches
Earlier in the day, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, a chief rival, appeared on Bloomberg Radio to discuss his campaign focus, while Adams was rallying clergy at City Hall.

Cuomo emphasized boosting public safety, unveiling a pledge to increase NYPD salaries to attract and retain officers. He, too, is running outside the main parties.

“Day one, raise the salary,” Cuomo said. “It will have a practical effect, you’ll be more competitive, but it will also say to police, ‘I value you, I believe in you.’”

While Adams, himself an NYPD alum, agrees with Cuomo on several crime-related policies, both diverge from Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani. Though Mamdani once championed the defunding movement, he now backs continuing NYPD funding, coupled with internal reforms.

As the campaign intensifies, Adams is focused on building a coalition anchored in faith, public trust, and bipartisan appeal.