Eric Adams revealed to podcast host Tucker Carlson that aides to former President Joe Biden told the New York mayor that he should just “be a good Democrat” over concerns about how illegal immigration was affecting the city.

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.

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, a Democrat, declined to say anything negative about Donald J. Trump’s early executive orders, saying he would bring any concerns directly to the president.