It seemed like an innocent exchange of texts.

“Hi. I can help Eric figure out how to get his agenda advanced in Albany,” recently deposed Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote me in early 2022, just about two months after Mayor Eric Adams took the oath of office.

At the time, Adams was riding high. Some called him “the future of the Democratic Party” and then-President Joe Biden took a shine to the blue collar mayor from New York, who in many ways was like “Good Old Joe from Scranton.” “I’m the Joe Biden of Brooklyn,” Adams boasted in his signature reductive style.

All seemed like roses and wine for the Democrats locally and nationally. It had been a long year since the Trump administration had been unceremoniously dumped from D.C, sparking a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that ultimately f

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