Is Eric Adams Running for Re-election? Signs Point to No.

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City insists that he is running for re-election. But if actions speak louder than words, evidence would strongly suggest otherwise.

The mayor has taken few concrete steps to launch a serious campaign, even as he faces a growing field of prominent challengers in the June 24 primary, less than four months away.

Mr. Adams has not held any campaign events this year. He has no campaign manager. His fund-raising has slowed. The painstaking petition process to get mayoral candidates’ names on the ballot began late last month, yet the mayor’s signature-gathering operation appears to be limited.

Two key advisers, Evan Thies and Nathan Smith, have not joined his re-election campaign and declined to comment about whether they would return. At this stage in the 2021 race, Mr. Adams’s campaign had already paid the advisers’ firms tens of thousands of dollars.

Now even some of the mayor’s closest allies have expressed doubts that he will run and are beginning to support other candidates.

Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, a state lawmaker and loyal ally of the mayor who leads the Brooklyn Democratic Party, said that Mr. Adams has told her that “absolutely he’s running.”