Welcome back to the Podforce One podcast.

We're in New York City in Gracie Mansion.

In the Peach Room, this is the home of Mayor Eric Adams, who we're going to be speaking to.

He's locked in an intense race for re-election.

Mayor Adams, thank you so much for talking to us here on Podforce 1. You are in

for the race of your life for re-election later in the year. And I know you used to be a Democrat,

very proud Democrat. What made you leave the party and become an independent? Yeah, and I'm still a Democrat, but the rules allow us to run on independent lines.

And so I'm a Democrat running on an independent line called Safe and Affordable.

Two of the top issues that New York is facing.

But it's clear that a portion of our party, they have taken a far left approach to governing,

and I don't support those concepts.

And I like to say that it's not so much I left the party, but the party left me.

Why did that happen? What's gone wrong with the Democratic Party?

What I believe is the issue is that we are allowing a numerical minority that is the loudest

to hijack the needs of working class people and what working

class people are concerned about. They're concerned about ensuring that they could afford to

live in their city. They're concerned about the city being safe. They're concerned about making sure

that they can see a bright future. And these other conversations that they're having are not really the bread and butter issues

of working class people.

And who do you see as your biggest or strongest adversary?

We have Andrew Cuomo, the former governor.

I call him the granny killer because of his policies during COVID.

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