New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that fellow mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo urged Adams to drop his reelection bid, saying the former governor has a “real history” of taking similar action with other Black elected officials.

Eric Adams tore into Andrew Cuomo Monday and claimed the ex-governor had the gall to ask the mayor to leave the Big Apple mayoral race — calling it the “highest level of arrogance.” Adams revealed on CNBC that the pair of independent candidates recently had a conversation in which Cuomo asked the City Hall leader to bow out of the general election in a bid to help Cuomo beat socialist state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani in November.