Jeffries praises Eric Adams for serving 'courageously'

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4. Kinzinger knocked him for it though

Kinzinger knocks Jeffries for praising Eric Adams: ‘Are you kidding me?’

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Sunday slammed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) over a statement praising New York City Mayor Eric Adams following Adams’s decision to end his reelection bid.

“Are you kidding me? Eric Adams is corrupt and cut a corrupt deal with [President] Trump to save himself,” Kinzinger said in a post on the social platform X.

Kinzinger’s post also featured a statement from Jeffries in which the Democrat said Adams had “served courageously and authentically for decades as a Member of the N.Y.P.D., the New York State Senate, in Brooklyn Borough Hall and as our 110th Mayor.”

Adams recently announced his decision to drop his reelection campaign, marking another significant twist in the New York City mayoral race. The contest took an unexpected turn June when New York Assembly member Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated political heavyweight and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in the Democratic primary.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5526991-nyc-mayoral-race-twists-kinzinger-jeffries/