Attempts at isolating the New York mayoral race between the top two candidates before the November election, a pact verbally signed onto by former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is being rejected by the other parties.

Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, running, like Cuomo, as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa have expressed no desire to a mid-September resignation deadline to try to consolidate the vote against Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, ABC 7-N.Y. reported Monday.

“Let’s not forget the damage he caused as governor,” Adams told ABC 7. “Cuomo led the charge on a flawed bail reform. He failed New York’s most vulnerable during COVID.

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