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Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams has sent shockwaves in the political landscape as he hinted that he could someday re-join the Republican Party.

The mayor campaigned for the job as a tough-on-crime former NYPD captain who sounded a lot like a Republican, the Party he was a member of from 1997 to 2001 before becoming a Democrat.

During his tenure as mayor of The Big Apple, his comments on illegal immigration were at odds with those of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

This week, he spoke to “Mornings On 1” to celebrate his City Council’s approval of his “City of Yes” housing initiative when the hosts asked if he would consider joining his old party again.

“The party that’s the most important for me is the American party. I’m a part of the American party. I love this country. This is the home of the free, the land of the brave,” the mayor said. “My 19-year-old [uncle] died on the fields of Vietnam protecting what this city and this country represents. And that’s the party I’m going to always be a member of.”

“And I did it as a police officer when I wore that bulletproof vest for 22 years. And I’m gonna do it with this blue suit as the mayor of the city of New York,” he said.

When he spoke in another interview with WPIX he confirmed he would seek reelection as a Democrat but did not rule out switching back to the Republican Party.

In November Adams appeared on the show on Friday where the hosts attempted to get him to directly criticize the president-elect but he would not take the bait and hit back at them for how ridiculous they have been.

“Let’s love the country. Let’s love our cities,” the mayor said.

“Let’s get away from the rhetoric of the professionalism that we know. Those are experts in this. They’re going to look at his proposal, do a real analysis, and make these decisions. It happens every day. We’ve reached a point in this country where we no longer want to engage in conversation. They were even calling him Hitler. That was an insult to the millions of Jews and others who died. We know what Hitler did,” Adams continued.

“When I’m on the streets talking to my young people who [are] wearing Hamas signs and calling for the destruction of groups, I said we have to bring down this rhetoric,” he said.

And in October, before the presidential election, Adams defended former President Donald Trump on Saturday, criticizing Democrats for labeling the Republican nominee a “fascist” and drawing comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

“I have had those comments hurled at me by some political leaders in the city; my answer is ‘No,’” Adams said on Friday after he was asked about those criticisms of Trump, the New York Post reported.

“I know what Hitler has done, and I know what a fascist regime looks like. I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature,” added Adams, a moderate Dem who is currently facing federal corruption charges.

Adams made these remarks during a news conference in Manhattan, where he outlined plans for a “large police presence” at Trump’s rally scheduled for Madison Square Garden, The Post added.

The mayor recently announced that he has scheduled a meeting with the man that the president-elect has picked to be border czar, Tom Homan, to talk about how his city could assist with deportations, as he explained on the MSNBC show “Morning Joe.”

“I want to hear the actual plan, how we are going to actually operationalize this,” he said. “We’re not talking about those who are stealing apples. We are talking about those who are shooting at police officers, raping individuals, and I would like to hear the border czar’s plan on addressing that.”

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