“We will pivot and shift,” Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. “We just had a small amount to raise.”

The mayor’s response to his latest fundraising haul — the smallest amount he has raised in any fundraising period since he started his re-election campaign for next year.

Since mid-July, Adams has received about $146,000 in net contributions after refunding tens of thousands of donations during the same period.

What You Need To Know

  • Mayor Eric Adams' campaign raised approximately $146,000 in net campaign contributions during the last filing period

  • Adams campaign says they have raised enough to reach the primary’s $8.3 million spending limit

  • But that statement is dependent upon the mayor’s receipt of public matching dollars 

A review of those donations shows the last contribution he received was on Sept.26, the day the mayor was indicted on criminal charges. The disclosures include all donations through Oct.7, last week.

On Tuesday, he did not want to take specific questions about his campaign or fundraising, instead directing reporters to his campaign’s attorney.

Despite the small showing during the latest filing, the mayor has more than $3 million dollars in his campaign account — far more than any of his potential Democratic primary rivals.

And the campaign argues that with the city’s generous matching fund system, where some contributions are matched 8 to 1, it has already met the maximum spending threshold for the primary campaign.

According to the campaign finance board, the mayor’s campaign has about $543 thousand in matching donations.

Of course, the indictment could put that into question.

Back in 2013, the city’s campaign finance board denied then mayoral candidate John Liu’s campaign millions in matching dollars after his campaign treasurer was convicted in a straw donor scheme.

The mayor was asked about whether he was concerned about not getting matching dollars on Tuesday.

He just said: “No.”

Still, experts say the impact could be huge.

“Denying matching funds is basically like the death penalty,” Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School said. “That’s capital punishment. So I think they’re surely going to take that super seriously and surely there will not be a rush to judgment.”

In response to the filing, the mayor’s attorney, Vito Pitta, issued the following statement: “Mayor [Eric] Adams’s strong support from New Yorkers continues—and the campaign has now raised the maximum amount it can spend in the primary with anticipated matching funds for his reelection far ahead of schedule.”