NEW YORK MINUTE: With the Yankees returning to the Bronx tonight down 0-2 in the World Series, the Transportation Workers Union is spending more than $100,000 on ads slamming Gov. Kathy Hochul for “foul play” in a long-simmering dispute over contract negotiations with Metro-North workers. Anyone in and around Yankee Stadium should get served anti-Hochul ads on their phones, TWU President John Samuelsen said, calling her “a freaking miserable backstabber.” ”There is one week until the election and everyone's energy and resources should be focused on making Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker of the House and electing Kamala Harris president,” Hochul spokesperson Jen Goodman said. MAGA SQUARE GARDEN: New York City Mayor Eric Adams broke with Democratic leadership — and former Donald Trump aides — Saturday to say Trump should not be called a fascist. And Trump was listening. “He’s been really great,” the Republican presidential nominee said about Adams at a Madison Square Garden campaign rally Sunday night. “And he said that they shouldn’t be calling Trump a dictator. Because it’s not true. That’s nice. That was nice. Very nice. So we want to thank Mayor Adams. He’s been going through a hard time with these people.” As he has done before, Trump also downplayed Adams’ federal bribery charges as just an “upgraded seat on an airplane” and suggested that the Justice Department indicted Adams for speaking out about migrants — a claim for which there’s no solid evidence. It was an 80-second aside in an 80-minute speech — the closing of a half-day event marked by anti-immigrant rhetoric and a “joke” insulting Puerto Rico so bad that even Trump’s campaign tried to disavow it. Adams’ opponents jumped at the praise from Trump. “Our city deserves a Mayor who isn't afraid to call Trump out, reject his hateful rhetoric, and stand up for NYC values,” state Sen. Zellnor Myrie posted on X. Adams has said he is solidly behind Kamala Harris for president but has entirely avoided the campaign trail — perhaps a function of his unpopularity within his own party. Unlike basically every other prominent Democrat in the country, Adams avoids criticizing Trump — a strategy that has come under more scrutiny as Election Day approaches and follows reporting that Adams’ allies hope Trump would drop his case. Adams is often at odds with left-leaning Democrats and seems more simpatico with the handful of Republicans in power in the city than some in his own party. Adams spokesperson Fabien Levy declined to comment on Trump’s remarks. NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell attended the rally, and his decision to conduct an interview on far-right TV outlet Newsmax drew criticism from liberal Democrats Trump kept the focus squarely on his own race Sunday and didn’t shout out any of the swing seat Republicans whose races will help determine which party controls the House. But those candidates could be hurt by something that was said on stage: comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s quip that “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” At least one Republican House candidate in New York, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, attended the rally and later denounced the insult. New York Democrats, meanwhile, seized on the political opportunity. “I need every Boricua on here to take that rally clip and drop it in your family WhatsApps and group chats,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on X. “Desperate House Republicans from Long Island and the Hudson Valley shamefully invited this filth into our community,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries posted about Hinchcliffe. “Vote them all out.” — Jeff Coltin HAPPY MONDAY. Got news? Send it our way: Jeff Coltin, Emily Ngo and Nick Reisman.
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