Ray McGuire

“There’s no one here who’s saying something so egregious that I had to come in and had to stop somebody, so I decided to put my time in ranked-voting."

A new poll out Monday from NY1 and Ipsos found Adams had surged ahead with 22% of those polled. However, the polling does not reflect the past week as it was done at the end of May.

In an interview with Gothamist, McGuire, 64, said running for mayor was not a vanity project, and argued that his record of managing billion-dollar budgets sets him apart from the rest of his rivals.

"Every New Yorker deserves a chance to get back in the game, and all of New York deserves a leader who can bring the city together and solve this crisis," he says.