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New numbers filed on Tuesday after the midnight deadline show Mayor Eric Adams raised only a small amount of what his Democratic rivals did during the last fundraising period from mid-January through mid-March.
In total, his net contributions were about $19,000 this cycle, which is just 1% of what former Gov. Andrew Cuomo raised in two weeks.
Adams’ campaign spending in the last two months was more than $157,000, leaving him with a little more than $3 million in his campaign account.
That comes after the city’s Campaign Finance Board denied the mayor’s request for public matching funds in December because of his federal indictment.
If officials had approved it, he would have received millions of dollars in public money to aid his campaign.
In a statement, the mayor’s campaign spokesman said on Tuesday, "We continue to maintain that the campaign has fully qualified for matching funds and are in active communication with the Campaign Finance Board to ensure that those funds are properly reviewed and unlocked in accordance with all regulations."
A review of his campaign filing shows just 38 people contributed to his campaign in the last two months, including a professional poker player and a well-known real estate lobbyist.
Compare that to the left-leaning candidate Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who had nearly 11,000 people contribute to his campaign in the same time period and a fundraiser hosted by actress and former gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon last week.
"For too long, it’s felt as if Democrats are simply waiting to surrender until the midterms,” Mamdani said at the fundraiser according to a video posted by Nixon on Instagram. “And we have to remember the power of [President] Donald Trump and the power of this rising right-wing movement is not simply which it holds technically, but the narrative power."
Even so, the mayor said this week that he’s still in this.
His filing showed he has paid $67,000 to a firm for petitioning.
When reached by NY1, the company’s founder said petitions to get the mayor on the Democratic primary ballot were completed that’s despite widespread speculation the mayor was planning to run on an independent line later this year.
