Alyssa Cass on how Eric Adams’ indictment has cooled down Republican attacks on the city

Slingshot partner Alyssa Cass spoke to Vanity Fair about how Eric Adams stopped giving ammunition to anti-New York City Republicans after he was indicted by the Department of Justice.

“It’s part of an ongoing effort to turn down the temperature on campaign rhetoric, the mayor’s team insists. And if it seems rather unhelpful to Adams’s fellow Democratic politicos right now, some of the ones I spoke with found it to be a small improvement. ‘The only silver lining about the indictments of Eric Adams has been that he has stopped giving Republicans talking points and sound bites for their ads about what a hellhole New York is,’ Alyssa Cass, a local Democratic strategist, tells me.

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