Eric Adams Is Endorsing ‘Snake and Liar’ Cuomo for Mayor

“Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar,” Mayor Eric Adams said last month, alleging that the former governor was trying to push him out of the mayoral race. He also described Cuomo and front-runner Zohran Mamdani as “spoiled brats” and alleged that Cuomo was a longtime enemy of Black politicians in New York. “You’ve heard me say it over again. Carl McCall, Charlie King, David Paterson. This is his career. That must stop with me. This city can’t go backward,” Adams said. Weeks later, Adams dropped out, headed off to Albania, and though he quasi-endorsed his former employee-slash-lover’s tell-all book about him, he did not endorse another candidate for mayor — until now. Per an interview with the New York Times, Adams is backing Cuomo and will campaign on his behalf.

During the final debate of the mayoral race on Wednesday night, all of the candidates were asked if they would accept Adams’s endorsement. Only Cuomo said he would. Then, within 30 minutes of the end of the debate, Cuomo was yucking it up with Adams courtside at the Knicks home opener, which conspicuously doubled as a big photo op for the pair. Both tweeted out images of the hangout. In Adam’s post, shared via his campaign’s X account, he wrote that “we need to win for the city. Can’t go backwards.”

Great win for the Knicks. We need to win for the city. Can’t go backwards. pic.twitter.com/U8iOv6EiMQ

— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) October 23, 2025

Mamdani, who has repeatedly accused Adams and Cuomo of being President Trump’s pawns in the race, is doubling down on that framing in his response to the endorsement:

The Art of the Deal. https://t.co/EZdka0OVu9

— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 23, 2025

And his longer response via a statement:

Zohran Mamdani on the Eric Adams endorsement for Andrew Cuomo: pic.twitter.com/O01LOdBueo

— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) October 23, 2025

In the end, Adams apparently decided that the enemy of Mamdani was his friend, even if he sort of hates him. Reports the Times:

Mr. Adams said in an interview on Thursday that he would campaign with Mr. Cuomo in neighborhoods where the mayor is most popular, and push people to vote for the former governor.

“I think that it is imperative to really wake up the Black and brown communities that have suffered from gentrification on how important this race is,” Mr. Adams said.

“They have watched their rents increase in terms of gentrification and they have been disregarded in those neighborhoods, and I’m going to go to those neighborhoods and speak one on one with organizers and groups and I’m going to walk with the governor in those neighborhoods and get them engaged.”

He may also have to tell them, “Forget what I said.”

This post has been updated.