New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) relationship with President Trump is alarming Democrats, who question the embattled mayor’s motives amid his ongoing legal challenges. Adams sat down with Trump for a meeting days before the president was sworn in and caught attention for a last-minute change of his schedule to attend Trump’s inauguration

New York City Mayor Eric Adams talks about being a Democrat in the past tense in a preview clip for an interview with Tucker Carlson that will be posted in full Tuesday night.

Mayor Eric Adams said the Democratic Party has abandoned him – and everyday New Yorkers. “People often say, ‘Well, you know, you don’t sound like a Democrat and you seem to have left the party,’” Adams told host Tucker Carlson during an interview due to air Tuesday night. “No. The party left me and left working-class people.”