'What Are You Going To Do... When Andrew Cuomo Asks You To Drop Out?': Adams Pressed On New Polling

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5 months ago

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked about a newly released Siena College poll.

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00:00in the city.

00:01The second topic, yes, sir.

00:02Can you just elaborate on your answer a moment ago?

00:05The poll shows you in fourth place behind Curtis Slewa.

00:09I'm wondering, what do you need to do to win?

00:13And what are you going to do next month?

00:15And Cuomo asks you to drop down.

00:17Okay, first of all, I already won.

00:19I'm a mayor that grew up...

00:22You know, I don't think people really understand, you know,

00:29and that's, I think, you know, that's one of the challenges

00:31that people have in life.

00:33They judge themselves by what people think of them.

00:37I already won.

00:38I'm the mayor of the most important city on the globe.

00:42Growing up in South...

00:43South Jamaica, Queens, you know,

00:48and I say it over and over again,

00:49and one day people are going to hear it.

00:51You know, growing up in South Jamaica, Queens,

00:53dyslexic, arrested, rejected.

00:57Now I'm elected to be the mayor.

00:59I mean, you know, so, I mean, God is good.

01:04And so, if I wake up every day and say,

01:07oh, my God, I'm a failure because somebody think of me this way,

01:10someone gave me the finger, someone yelled at me, someone...

01:14I mean, no, I have already won.

01:17They are trying...

01:18They are trying...

01:19They are trying to get what I have.

01:23Let's understand that.

01:25Let's understand it.

01:26There were...

01:27What were they?

01:28There were 13 people...

01:3013 people running to be mayor.

01:3213 people wanting to have what I have right now.

01:3513 people.

01:37Either I'm going to get it or someone else.

01:41But those other 12 will never get what I am.

01:45You know, I'm the mayor right now.

01:47And so, and so, I'm going to do what I have to do to be re-elected

01:53because of what we have done while we're in office.

01:57All these broken promises.

01:58You know, we have, what, five people that are still in the race?

02:03Three of them don't have any record at all.

02:06No record.

02:07One of them, he's running from his record.

02:10I'm the only one that has a record.

02:12I'm the only person in the race.

02:15And that's why you can critique me.

02:16That's why all of you can ask me questions.

02:19It's because I have a record.

02:21My expansion of clubhouses.

02:22What I did was scout.

02:24More jobs in the city history.

02:26Drop unemployment.

02:27Brought down crime.

02:28Remove thousands of guns off our streets.

02:32No more taxes for low-income New Yorkers.

02:35No more taxes for low-income New Yorkers.

02:37Drop the cost of child care from $220 a month to less than $20 a month.

02:44Earned income tax credit increase.

02:46Pay enough college tuition for foster care children.

02:49High-speed broadband for NYCHA residents for free so they can have access to it.

02:55I mean, so, so I, let me finish my flow.

02:59Let me finish my flow because, you know, I'm flowing right now.

03:02I want to, I want to give you a flow.

03:05So, so, no matter what happens, I improve the lives of working class people.

03:11That's what I said I was going to do when I was running.

03:13I said I was going to improve the lives of working class people.

03:16I did that.

03:17Now, I want to complete doing that.

03:20And so, if the people of the city say that, you know what, we want someone else to do it,

03:24I mean, that's life.

03:25I can't sit back and complain.

03:27I ran.

03:28I sold my, my, my vision to the city.

03:31They said, this is what we want.

03:33And I'll have to get out there and sell.

03:35This is what I'm going to do for you in the next four years.

03:37But the people of the city is going to make that determination.

03:40They're going to hear me.

03:41And they're going to say, do we want to continue after we heard you, Eric?

03:46And then I make a decision.

03:47And it's, and it's all cool.

'What Are You Going To Do... When Andrew Cuomo Asks You To Drop Out?': Adams Pressed On New Polling

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