It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Happy Monday, everybody.

Well, you may have noticed that Mayor Eric Adams did not drop out of his re-election

bid over the weekend. He took several opportunities,

in fact, since Friday's show to deny reports that he is taking a job in the Trump administration

in exchange for dropping out to consolidate voters not for Zararamam Dani behind fewer candidates,

mostly Andrew Cuomo. This is not over, let me say, as a spoiler alert, before we

talk about it. But here's one way Adams went after both Cuomo and Mom Donnie in one breath.

I have two spoiled brats running for mayor. They were born with silver spoons in their mouths,

not like roking class New Yorkers. I, not like working class New Yorkers.

I'm a roking class New Yorker.

They are not like us.

But this, like I say, is not over.

Adams did not deny when he spoke to the press that he had conversations with people's in Trump's orbit about dropping out, and he released a

statement that included the words, I will always listen if called to serve my country, unquote.

The next words, though, were no formal offers have been made.

So does President Trump really want Mom Donnie to lose the election?

Maybe he'd rather have him as a foil in next year's midterm congressional elections,

which are presumably of much greater importance to Trump than who runs New York.

That also might be why the House and Senate Democratic leaders, both from Brooklyn,

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, have not endorsed

Mamdani. At least so far, they could be worried about the same thing, right, from the other side.

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