Mayor Eric Adams sang President Biden’s praises on Monday, referring to him as “my dude” and joking that he’s commander-in-chief’s favourite mayor.
Adams expressed pleasure throughout an unrelated press convention about his scheduled assembly with Biden on Thursday to discuss methods to fight gun violence within the wake of the ambush killing of two NYPD officers.
“It is a nice metropolis, and I’m the Biden of Brooklyn. And I like the truth that the president is coming right here. I met with him after the marketing campaign, and we spoke and we simply related, you realize,” mentioned Adams.
“And I’m positive in case you had been to ask him, ‘What's his favourite mayor?’ he’d clearly inform you, ‘It’s Eric,” he advised reporters with a smile.
“We simply actually like one another. … You realize, we simply bought to hang around collectively, you realize. That’s my dude,” Adams mentioned with fun.
Requested why he labeled himself the “Biden of Brooklyn,” the retired NYPD captain mentioned he and the president are each ”blue-collar guys” who're all the way down to earth.
“As a result of you realize, we simply like these blue-collar guys. You realize, he's snug round on a regular basis folks. And you would simply inform that whenever you’re in his presence, he’s simply, you realize, he’s extraordinary Joe,” Adams defined. “He is aware of the folks, however the folks know him.”
Adams concluded his presidential reward with a signature one-liner.
“He’s a man that may bear the load of the town, however that you simply don’t thoughts having a beer with,” he quipped.
Adams and Biden, each Democratic moderates, have a base of working-class non-white voters.
Monday’s press convention was not the primary time Adams has in contrast himself to the president.
“They name me the Biden of Brooklyn, as a result of you'll be able to simply inform when somebody just isn't attempting to hurry you thru the assembly and fascinating,” Adams mentioned in July, when he visited the White Home following his mayoral Democratic major victory. “He's a plain-talked individual and it's only a pleasure having him as president.”
Adams’ most up-to-date reward comes after the White Home introduced the 2 will meet Thursday to debate “the Administration’s complete technique to fight gun crime, which incorporates historic ranges of funding for cities and states to place extra cops on the beat and spend money on neighborhood violence prevention and intervention packages, in addition to stepped-up federal regulation enforcement efforts towards unlawful gun traffickers.”
Since Adams was sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1, 5 NYPD officers have been shot within the line of responsibility. The most recent cop capturing got here on Jan 21, when rookie Officer Jason Rivera, 22, and his police companion, Wilbert Mora, 27 had been gunned down throughout a home name in Harlem.
In response, the new mayor final week unveiled plans to crack down on unlawful weapons and violent crime extra broadly.
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