New York City Mayor Eric Adams talks about being a Democrat in the past tense in a preview clip for an interview with Tucker Carlson that will be posted in full Tuesday night.

In a talk with Tucker Carlson, whom he once criticized, Adams claimed the Democratic party left him because of his immigration views.

People often say, ‘you don’t sound like a Democrat, and you seem to have left the party,’” Adams said in a preview Carlson shared on X Tuesday. “No, the party left me, and it left working class people.