New York City Mayor Eric Adams will skip the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent, he announced Thursday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he will pull out of the city's Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent, arguing that his recently dismissed federal bribery case had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to start his own political party to run for a second term—an unorthodox strategy that he thinks is his best path to win re-election. No longer encumbered by his bribery case,