One Democratic main candidate, State Senator Zellnor Myrie, reduce a video providing himself as an antidote to the perceived political chaos. Others warned that Mr. Adams was undermining his social gathering’s possibilities in November. And a centrist lawyer who’s operating as an impartial, Jim Walden, rapidly challenged the mayor to a debate.
New York Metropolis has a protracted historical past of candidates switching events or operating on a third-party poll strains — typically efficiently. Hardly ever, although, has a candidate executed it in such a seemingly haphazard method as Mr. Adams, a onetime Republican who as not too long ago as Wednesday insisted he nonetheless deliberate to run as a Democrat.