Eric Adams offered Democrats a politics lesson during an appearance Tuesday on “The View,” where he warned against using slogans such as “Defund the police.”
“I say to the Democratic Party, ‘If you allow slogans to direct how we govern our city … we’re going to make a big mistake.’ That can’t happen and I’m not going to allow that to happen in my city,” he said on the ABC talk show.
He made the remark after the show’s conservative co-host Meghan McCain said to the retired NYPD captain: “You spent much of your campaign denouncing liberal slogans like ‘Defund the police.'”
She then asked Adams if he agreed that Democrats “are going to lose if they lean too far left and assume voters of color will lean that far left with them?”
“I believe that you can’t run cities based on slogans,” Adams said.
“Because you’re able to handle your Twitter handle, does not mean you can handle the complexities of running the cities in America,” he added, a day after meeting with President Biden to discuss gun violence.
And on June 23, the day after the Democratic mayoral primary, Adams said, “America is failing in running cities” before declaring himself the new “face of the Democratic Party.” He said adopting his anti-crime agenda was the only way for his party to turn its fortunes nationwide.