Rep. Jerry Nadler backs Scott Stringer for mayor in first N.Y. congressional endorsement of 2025

Longtime Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler is endorsing Scott Stringer’s run for mayor, making Stringer the archetypal campaigner successful the 2025 contention to unafraid enactment from a subordinate of New York’s legislature delegation.

Nadler, the delegation’s dean and oldest member, told the Daily News successful an exclusive connection Monday he’s throwing his value down Stringer due to the fact that the metropolis “needs vision, acquisition and competence astatine City Hall, present much than ever.”

“Scott has an extended grounds that proves helium has what it takes to pb the city, present for New Yorkers, and cleanable up the messiness aft 3 years of chaos and corruption,” Nadler said, taking a changeable astatine Mayor Adams, who’s nether indictment connected national corruption charges.

“I’ve worked with Scott for much than 3 decades, and from his aboriginal days arsenic a lodging organizer to serving arsenic metropolis comptroller, he’s ever worked hard, enactment New Yorkers archetypal and has ne'er been acrophobic to instrumentality connected the presumption quo portion serving the metropolis helium loves.”

A run lawyer for Adams, who has pleaded not blameworthy and is acceptable to basal proceedings successful April, didn’t instrumentality a petition for comment.

The endorsement from Nadler, who has represented the voter-rich Upper West Side successful Congress for implicit 3 decades, is particularly important for driving turnout successful Manhattan, Stringer argued.

“Jerry Nadler’s a captious barometer for Manhattan voters, particularly connected the westbound side,” helium said. “I’ve agelong said: Texas has lipid and the Upper West Side has premier Democratic voters.”

Nadler has a long-standing narration with Stringer, who was elected successful 1992 to instrumentality implicit his Manhattan-based State Assembly spot aft Nadler became a congressman.

Stringer, whose astir caller elected station was metropolis comptroller, secured Nadler’s endorsement erstwhile helium mounted his unsuccessful 2021 run for mayor, too. Stringer’s 2021 run was upended aft 2 women accused him of intersexual misconduct — claims helium denies and which helium has filed a defamation suit over.

The different 10 members of New York City’s congressional delegation haven’t issued endorsements successful the 2025 mayoral contention yet. Other influential members whose endorsements are coveted see Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Adriano Espaillat and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Stringer is among a packed tract of much than a fractional twelve candidates moving against Adams successful June’s Democratic mayoral primary.

Adams faces a rocky way to reelection arsenic helium reels from historically debased support ratings and being denied nationalist matching funds successful December owed to his indictment.

The tract of Adams challengers could soon go adjacent wider, arsenic ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering a run. If he’s going to run, Cuomo would apt person to denote a run earlier petitioning starts Feb. 25.