Adams Huddles With Moguls To Plot Against Mamdani

The New York Times reports:

In a conference room in Manhattan on Wednesday night, Mayor Eric Adams and Daniel S. Loeb, the hedge fund manager, met with other business leaders and political brokers to discuss how to stop the rise of Zohran Mamdani and possibly bolster Mr. Adams’s re-election campaign.

The business leaders were impressed that Mr. Adams was already staging a public fight against Mr. Mamdani, several people familiar with the meeting said. Earlier in the day, during an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Mr. Adams called Mr. Mamdani a “snake-oil salesman.”

Shayne Coplan, the chief executive of Polymarket, a website that lets users gamble with cryptocurrency, was also present, according to two people familiar with the gathering. Mr. Adams is a noted cryptocurrency booster and planned to speak at a “tokenization” conference on Thursday afternoon.

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