President Eric? NYC Mayor Adams 'is considering 2024 White House bid if ailing Joe Biden, 79, declines to run and will position himself as 'anti-woke Democrat'

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams is eyeing up a 2024 White House bid as an anti-woke Democrat if Joe Biden decides not to run for a second term, it is claimed.  

Adams, 61, - who once referred to himself as the 'Biden of Brooklyn' - has 'repeatedly' told confidantes that he is considering running for the highest office and thinks he could 'win,' sources told the New York Post. 

'Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024,' a source close to the mayor told the Post. 'He thinks New York is a national platform [and] he thinks the national party has gotten too far to the left and he thinks he has a platform to win.' 

A Brooklyn Democratic official, who was not identified, told the Post Adam's advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin was 'running point' on the matter and he'd only stake his claim on the presidency if Biden, 79, declined to run again. 

There have been conflicting reports about whether Biden will seek a second term. He is already the oldest president to ever hold office, and his year-and-a-half in office has been marred with what critics claim are cognitive slips.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams might be considering a 2024 White House bid. A source close to the mayor said: 'Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024'

Ahead of the 2020 election, Biden himself had reportedly conceded he'd be a single-term president who hoped to reunite the US in the wake of Donald Trump's divisive presidency.

But there is no obvious Democrat candidate to succeed him, with Vice President Kamala Harris's personal approval ratings stubbornly low, and Biden is now said to be touting a 2024 run. 

While only five months into his first term in office, Adams has pleased many centrist Democrats - and conservatives - by avoiding progressive or extreme stances on economic and social issues.  

However, Adam's advisor Evan Thies dismissed rumors, saying: 'The mayor has not had any conversations with anyone about running for president. He is 100 percent focused on lowering crime and improving the economy in New York, and bringing this city back.'

A Brooklyn Democrat said Adams would only consider the gig if Biden (pictured) does not run for reelection 

Adams (pictured with Biden in July 2021) once referred to himself as the 'Biden of Brooklyn' 

The mayor does seem to have some backing, though, as CEO of Tusk Strategies Chris Coffey told the New York Post: 'He is one of the best-known black elected officials in the country. The play works if Adams makes progress on crime and the president decides not to run. I think he would be crazy not to consider it.' 

Even a GOP lawmaker told the Post he thought the Big Apple mayor could have a chance if he solved the crime riddling the City That Never Sleeps.  

The unidentified lawmaker said: 'I said you really have to consider that you are young enough where you will have a life after the mayoralty and if you solve the crime problem there would be a lot of interest in a big city Democrat, African American with progressive values but who mediated the crime problem in a major city.' 

Adams had been faced with rising crime rates as the city plunges into a wave of violence, leaving citizens on edge. 

Although crime rates are starting to slow down, overall violent crime is still up 40 percent across all five boroughs. Shootings, stabbings, and gun violence has run rampant through the streets - even prompting Adams to wear an 'end gun violence' suit jacket to the Met Gala earlier this month. 

He has blamed many of the problems he faces on former Mayor Bill de Blasio, condemned as the city's wokest-ever leader.  

With Adams and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's lax bail reform, career criminals have been running the streets, breaking into businesses, and terrorizing citizens. 

Overall crime is up 40 percent (pictured) in New York City as Adams deals with the rampant criminals 

Despite Adams' confidence, New Yorkers have declining faith him, new polls are showing. Crime is 49 percent of citizens' biggest concerns, followed by affordable housing and homelessness. 

The Bronx and Staten Island citizens rated him the worst at 61 and 71 percent, respectively. And his overall approval in the city sits at 43 percent approving and 37 percent disapproving, the New York Post reported. 

In addition, 86 percent of New Yorkers want more transit police in the subway system, but despite the promise of adding more officers to the system, most stations go empty. The former transit cop, himself, even encouraged citizens to send his office pictures of officers who are too busy on their phones or chatting with coworkers to keep a vigilant eye out for crime. 

A 25-year-old man was carjacked and 'punched, stabbed, and slashed' by two unidentified suspects in the Bronx on May 7, just the one of many as carjacking is up 58 percent 

New Yorkers lie on the platform at 36th Street station after falling out of the northbound N train after Frank James, 62, shot 10 people on a Brooklyn subway

The FBI (pictured in Brooklyn) were called to the scene to help after the mass shooting 

If Adams does stake his bid for presidency, he will be following in the footsteps of his predecessors, such as Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani.

However, no NYC mayor has ever made it into the White House. 

But it seems the current mayor has already been making moves to be viewed as a national leader, as he's been seen making his way across the country at events. 

He's recently been seen Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California earlier this month and at a cryptocurrency conference in Miami and side-by-side with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to protest gun violence in March.