President Trump has yet to make overtures to assist Mayor Adams’ re-election bid — and Hizzoner isn’t counting on it.
Trump recently hailed Adams’ re-election bid and many of the commander-in-chief’s supporters continue to pressure Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the race and prevent a victory by “communist lunatic” Zohran Mamdani.
But Adams told The Post “I have not asked him for [an endorsement or help], and he has not interfered with this race at all.”
Adams faces an serious uphill battle to get re-elected — with a series of recent polls having him in a distant third or fourth place, more than 20 points behind Democratic nominee and frontrunner Mamdani.
Adams, however, expressed confidence he’ll pull off an upset win in November, even if Sliwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — a registered Democrat like Adams also running as an independent — remain in the race.
“I got to win the race based on what I do best, and that’s campaign,” said Adams during an interview Thursday on the backyard porch of Gracie Mansion.
The trio are jockeying for the votes of moderate Dems and Republicans, as well as the largest swath of the independent voters.
Cuomo and Adams have repeatedly called for each other to drop out of the race, claiming only they can stave off the young far-left socialist from being handed the keys to New York City.
Adams, who has repeatedly cozied up to the president, skirted questions about whether he’d even want a Trump endorsement considering Dems outnumber Republicans 6-1 in the city.
However, he wondered out loud why Cuomo didn’t get the same criticism he received from lefty critics after Trump on Tuesday said the ex-governor should stay in the race because he “has a shot” to beat Mamdani and prevent a “communist” from running NYC.
Trump declined to say who he would support, instead telling reporters on the White House lawn, “I don’t want to say.”
Adams also skirted questions on whether he’d accept the Republican line if it became available.
For that scenario to play out, Sliwa, 71, under state election law, would either first have to accept a federal appointment or die. There’s also some precedent for him to be removed from the ballot if he moves out of Gotham and alerts election officials he can’t serve as mayor.
Adams would then need the backing of at least three of the five Republican county chairs to replace Sliwa on the Republican line.
Sliwa, however, insists he remains all in on his mayoral bid — even though he’s not expecting a Trump endorsement based on past bad blood between the two.
Although Trump has yet to reach out to Adams, he has repeatedly blasted Mamdani after the socialist’s stunning upset in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary last month.
“Democrats have crossed the line by elevating a 100% Communist Lunatic,” Trump railed in a Truth Social post on June 25.
Adams has repeatedly come under fire from his party’s far-left faction for having a good working relationship with the Republican president.
Some pols and political pundits say Adams could see a significant bump in support from Trump-loving Republicans and moderate Democrats if the president offered the mayor his support.
“Moderates Democrats might have a problem with Trump, but they’re more likely to have a bigger problem with Mamdani,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic consultant. “They might look at Adams and say he’s a [retired NYPD] cop and understands all our problems.”
Yet Adams should expect little support from New Yorkers who voted for Mamdani in the Democratic primary — especially if Trump endorses him, Sheinkopf added.
Far-left ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed, adding a potential endorsement from Trump would all but doom Adams’ re-election campaign.
De Blasio told The Post his advice for any candidate in the left-leaning Metropolis — including Adams — is “you’re going to lose more than you gain” with a Trump endorsement, considering only 30% of NYC voters supported Trump in last year’s presidential election.
“It’s simply bad math: Two-thirds of New Yorkers would react badly to someone they saw affiliated with Trump . . . so you lose a bunch of Democrats,” said de Blasio, an avid supporter of the 33-year-old Mamdani.
“It’s not 2001 where a Democratic Michael Bloomberg took on the Republican [mayoral] line sort of in a fusion way like we used to have where a moderate Republican could be acceptable to a certain number of Democrats,” he said.
“This is a whole different reality because of Trumpism. People have just hardened on their positions, so I don’t see how it adds up.”
