It is the first day of a new mayor in New York

Nobody would ever call this year Race for the mayor of New York City a obvious conclusion – not with a Former dishonored governorA Increasing democratic society and a Uncembent fights corruption expenses All running.

But Thursday, he turned to a completely unexplored territory.

The main cause was the mayor Eric Adams, who, recently released from his criminal proceeding, A Surprise 6 AM Announcement Which would give up the democratic primaries and functioning as an independent politician this autumn.

The decision was a next pragmatic step for a politician who has President in a brightly courted Trump courted And its sorceress base, exasperating in his party while looking for a way out of its legal danger. And a few hours arrived before the candidates were required to deliver thousands of petitions to qualify for the primary vote of June.

But the opponents of Mr. Adams wasted little time trying to capitalize. A group whose Captivating dream campaign -“Do not classify Eric or Andrew for the mayor”-they tried to convince the voters to leave Mr. Adams and the former governor Andrew M. Cuomo Fuori fly quickly to choose he changed his name To reflect his now singular mission: “Do not classify the evil Andrew for the mayor”.

A primary democratic candidate, Senator of the state Zellnor Myriecut a video Offering itself as an antidote to perceived political chaos. And a centrist lawyer who runs as independent, Jim WaldenHe quickly challenged the mayor to discuss.

New York City has a long history of candidates who change parties or running Third-party electoral lines with success successfully. Rarely, however, a candidate apparently made as long as Mr. Adams, a time republican who recently insisted that on Wednesday he still planned to run as a democratic.

Some expert political analysts provided that his passage would have little effect on the final result in a city where the Democrats exceed the Republicans from six to one, and where the work of Mr. Adams The approval assessments decreased to record the minimums.

“It would not have been re -elected yesterday, and it will not be today,” said Howard Wolfson, a democratic strategist and former vice mayor who helped Michael R. Bloomberg to win the re -election in 2009, when he ran on the lines of the Independence and Republican party. “His campaign is irrelevant.”

But the decision of Mr. Adams increases at least the possibility that the city can be directed towards a general multicanderidated and multicanderidated election unlike any other that has seen since 1977. After losing the democratic primary to Edward I. Koch that year, Mario M. Cuomo – Andrew Cuomo – worked in the general elections on the liberal party line, only to return again.

In this case, it is becoming easier to imagine a scenario in which until half a dozen candidates are still in competition in November. They could include Mr. Adams; Andrew Cuomothat guides the primary democratic field; Curtis Sliwa, the main republican candidate; And Mr. Walden.

The feast of the left -handed families, a well -known enemy of Mr. Cuomo, could also choose to give his general electoral line to one of the liberals of the race and the rivals of Mr. Cuomo.

The group already has approved four candidatesincluding Zohran Mamdani, a Queens assembly that is supported by the democratic socialists of America; Brad Lander, the city controller; Adrienne Adams, president of the city council; And Mr. Myrie, Brooklyn state senator.

Ana María Archila, co -director of the New York Work Family Party, said that the party has already taken measures to manage a candidate for a place holder to preserve his voting line in the general elections as the primary democratic results await.

The party could later replace that person with a different candidate, a choice that perhaps would depend on those who win the democratic primaries.

“If one of our people approaches very much in the democratic primary, then it probably becomes the natural path,” said Mrs. Archila.

If Mr. Cuomo finally wins the primaries, he said: “It will be a huge factor for us” in deciding to manage an opponent candidate in November.

Among the turmoil, Mr. Adams would have to face questions for the first time as a candidate in a forum hosted on Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Al Sharpton. The event has made a first test of how the mayor plans to regain the support of the New York who largely disapprove of his work and how his rivals will try to portray his decision to abandon the primary democratic breed.

Keith Lt Wright, president of the Manhattan Democratic Party, said that the democratic candidate for the general elections would support, but that he was still too early to cancel Mr. Adams.

“There is still a basis of people who are loyal to him and, in the general elections, what the hell he knows,” he said. “Unusual circumstances deserve unusual strategies. It was made before in different circumstances.”

Mr. Sliwa, who won almost 30 percent of votes throughout the city against Mr. Adams in 2021, was clearly cheering for the mayor to manage as independent. In an interview, he said that the Democrats were “in the mutual throat” and provided that they could divide their part of the vote.

“Then it’s like the Final Four in the basketball,” he said. “It’s a jump ball.”

In the short term, the impact on the democratic primary in June appeared simpler. Even before his decision on Thursday, Mr. Adams had been seriously dragged into the polls and was not expected to win.

Mr. Cuomo’s allies insist on the fact that it is better positioned to consolidate what remains of the black and Latin base of the working class of Mr. Adams. But the mayor’s exit from the primary race could also eliminate the lane for solitary attacks on Mr. Cuomo and offer democratic companions a new opening to attract the attention of the voters.

Mr. Adams, for his part, expressed a new optimism for his candidacy on Thursday, after winning a long recovery requested in his legal case. Him he told politician Which would remain a democrat from the fade of the party and would have tried to combine the base that led him to victory in 2021.

“I was this racing horse that was held back,” he said. “This is so unnatural for me.”

Mr. Adams could further climb the race if he continues to turn right. This could alienate his traditional supporters, but could theoretically allow him to compete for independent and republican voters, in particular if Mr. Trump has given his support.

The two men have courted themselves for months. After the judge’s sentence he rejected the case against Mr. Adams on Wednesday, The mayor supported a copy of a book that attacks the federal “deep state” Written by Kash Patel, director of the FBI of Mr. Trump, and urged the New Yorkers to read it.

Adams has several weeks to collect the necessary petitions to qualify for the vote as independent.

But his restarted campaign, which is linked to staff and money, began rocky. Mr. Adams was a No-show for a live television interview Thursday morning, after his team confirmed the appearance.