Adrienne Adams, the speaker of the City Council, the last candidate to enter the Democratic primary for mayor, says this election makes her anxious.

“Very excited,” she said. “I am very anxious. I am very anxious about the primary. I am very anxious all along the process.”

NY1 spoke exclusively to the speaker after she was endorsed by several tenant leaders in the Jewish community in Williamsburg earlier this week.

Adams says she’s not a natural politician.

“You know I am not a career politician. So, it took me a while to get there,” she said.

She’s balancing her day job — running the City Council — and campaigning for mayor, all while trying to negotiate a $115 billion budget by the end of the month.

“My overall life experiences of being a family woman, being a businesswoman, being the only Black woman at the table in a boardroom for years,” Adams said.

She was born in Elmhurst Hospital, grew up in Hollis, Queens and was a cheerleader at Bayside High School.

Her dad was a UPS driver. Her mom: a correction officer.

She spent decades in corporate America, working in human resources for companies like Revlon, Colgate and Nabisco.

Now she’s a mom to four children.

She’s tried to highlight that backstory, and be the so-called sensible alternative to other, more dramatic choices.

“I stand here before you as the one who brings you no corruption, no scandal, no drama, no nonsense,” Adams said at a church last month.

She is a close ally of the state Attorney General Letitia James, who persuaded her to jump in the race.

“This speaker has stood up to bullies,” James said. “She’s sued Donald Trump before.”

But other high profile female leaders, like the governor, have not come out for her candidacy.

“Did the governor ever tell you that she would back you?” NY1 asked her this week.

“No. No, but the governor seemed to be happy that I got into the race,” Adams said.

Hochul is not expected to weigh in on the race.

The speaker’s base of Southeast Queens is a vote-rich area where Andrew Cuomo is also expected to get support. She says it's her territory, her home and where her church is.

Even so, Adams is polling in the single digits, and has yet to have a breakout moment to set her apart from the field.

“I am still the last one to get into the race,” she said. “I think the candidates who have been in for a year plus, have probably peaked. I haven't.”