Mayor Eric Adams is facing backlash after invoking a comparison to Jesus and calling Black leaders who have urged him to resign “negroes” who need forgiveness from God during a Black History event Tuesday at Gracie Mansion.

Eric Adams finds himself in a strange and lonely spot: An incumbent mayor of the nation’s largest city, running for reelection with a skeleton campaign crew and some of his closest aides distancing themselves as his federal corruption case plods along.