"Don't Complain, Do Something!" - Eric Adams REVEALS The Crime Crisis That Pushed Him Into POWER

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

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Mayor Eric Adams explains why he switched from Republican to Democrat and now identifies as an independent. He reflects on public safety, New York’s political landscape, and the need to work within the system to create real change, especially in a heavily Democratic city like NYC.

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0:00.0	You chose to become an independent. When I look at your history with your past, last night, I'm at a local Italian restaurant that I go to all the time, Casa DiAngelo, and I'm there, and I can't leave the place. Everyone's asking me, I saw you going to have the mayor on. Let me tell you. They were sitting in the entire family. I want to give these guys the right shout-out, because they'll know that we were talking yesterday. It was the Shortino family. I want to give these guys the right shout-out because they'll know that we were
0:22.5	talking yesterday. It was the Shortino family, right, Anthony and Michael. And the family's sitting
0:27.2	there, the wife, the mother, everybody, let me tell you, you know, we're Republicans, but
0:31.7	this is our, we can't have Mom Donnie. We're going to be getting behind him. He's a good guy. He's got to do this. Then the other table, New York, then the...
0:38.5	Because, you know, South Florida is a lot of New York.
0:41.0	And you're seeing this surge.
0:42.8	You're seeing this number taking place with the level of interest on what's going to happen
0:47.0	in New York City.
0:48.8	But Mamdani is the lead today and when I think about you and I think about you know your past what you've done
0:56.7	how you came up and I went and looked up if you were always registered a Democrat you were a Republican
1:03.6	9597 to 2001 so you were Republican for four years and then you switched to Democrat and then you
1:10.8	became independent.
1:11.7	And when I ask around, people who know you, who like you, I don't know a lot of people
1:15.7	that don't like you. Almost everybody I talk to, they like you. We have a friend Alex Spiro,
1:20.4	I'm sure you know what Alex is. Oh, yes, I do. We spoke this morning. He said, let him know that, you know, Alex is a heavyweight. Yes, he is.
1:27.9	Doesn't get any heavier.
1:29.1	No, it doesn't get any heavier than Alex.
1:31.3	No, no, Alex is as heavy as it gets.
1:33.9	Yeah, he's represented everybody.
1:35.8	That's right.
1:36.0	You, Trump, Mosque, a lot of, Jay-Z, a lot of guys.
1:38.2	So the question becomes, you go Republican, you go Democrat, now you're independent. I ask, why did that happen?
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