On Nov. 3, 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was on his way to Washington, D.C., to discuss the border crisis with the Biden administration when suddenly he had to turn around and head back to Gotham because the FBI had carried out a raid at a top fundraiser’s home.
In retrospect, this may well be the moment that opened the door for socialist Zohran Mamdani to become the mayor of the nation’s largest and most important city.
Prior to the emergence of the investigation, Adams had consistently polled in the high 30s to low 40s in approval, not bad for a big-city mayor. But a month after his trip to D.C. that wasn’t, he fell to 25%, and he would never recover…