Mayor Adams expected to hold re-election campaign kickoff event Thursday: Major announcement

Mayor Eric Adams is expected to hold a re-election campaign kickoff event Thursday, two days after the city’s Democratic mayoral primaries close.Hizzoner will make a “major announcement about the future of his re-election campaign” at the event, according to sources from his campaign.The announcement will be held on the steps of City Hall at noon and will include “hundreds” of supporters, sources said.Adams, 64, will be running for re-election as an independent following a tumultuous year in office, which saw him accused of corruption before the historic case was dropped by the Trump administration.He blamed the long duration of the “bogus” case for tanking any hopes of campaigning for the primary and still insists he is a Democrat, but has been indicating a split from the party for several months.The city’s Democratic primary will close Tuesday, with former Gov.Andrew Cuomo and Democratic socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani battling out for the nomination amidst a large field of contenders.Adams is running on the line “safe streets, affordable city,” arguing that those are the two areas New Yorkers are most concerned about.“Those are the issues that are important to New Yorkers,” Adams told 1010Wins in April.

“They want a safe city.They want an affordable city.

And I want them to know that is what I produced for them.”An Adams aide also may have violated city laws while publicizing the Thursday event after they blasted out a message promoting it from their government email, the Daily News reported.Local law prohibits city employees from using municipal resources for “political activity,” the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board states.The aide later told the Daily News they “accidentally” sent the message from the wrong email account while multitasking....