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After winding down her smash hit Halloween party, Heidi Klum got herself ready for the “America’s Got Talent: All-Stars” taping at Radford Studio Center in Studio City, Calif.

Klum graced the event yesterday in a statement-making red jumpsuit and glimmering footwear. The star zipped into a ’70s-style jumpsuit with a sleeveless top, a plunging neckline, and followed by fitted flared pants. The jumpsuit was then belted in the middle to alter Klum’s silhouette.

The German-American businesswoman wore her long blond hair down styled in waves and a swooping side part and simply accessorized with gold studs.

On her feet, Klum stepped into gold sandals with stiletto-style heels and a platform base that effectively elevated the model’s outfit, while offering her some extra inches.

Often defined by long straps that wrap around the ankle and up the leg for security, strappy sandals are a popular choice with shorter dresses and other silhouettes that showcase legs.

Klum’s shoe lineup, on and off duty, has included sleek boots and strappy sandals from brands like Valentino, Dries Van Noten, and R13. When the occasion calls for it, Klum has been seen in pumps and mules from Gianvito Rossi, The Attico, and Femme LA. Klum’s career extends far beyond wearing fashionable shoes. The German-American began her career modeling for Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated.

PHOTOS: Click through the gallery to see Heidi Klum’s best red carpet looks.

Who’s going to tell him? That’s the question the Republican Party is asking themselves right now after Donald Trump inserted himself into the 2024 presidential conversation. He’s running, but the GOP is lining up behind other candidates to support besides the former president.

Republican Party leaders are noting that it’s like Donald Trump’s campaign announcement “didn’t happen” — that’s how little fanfare the former president is getting from his colleagues, according to Bob Vander Plaats, national co-chair of Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign, via Politico. Others, like former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo are “worried about his electability” because so many now oppose his brash (and bullying) style of leadership.

• Taylor Swift has worn memorable, daring, and beautiful looks on red carpets over the years.

• The singer loves to wear sequined dresses, bold colors, and floor-length gowns.

• Insider sorted through her best looks and ranked them from least to most memorable.

At the 2008 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift wore a one-shoulder dress covered in sparkles.

This is one of the first glimmering dresses Swift ever wore, and it eventually became her red-carpet signature. However, while this look predicts future red-carpet moments to come, it’s not as memorable as other looks she’s worn throughout her career.

She wore a more mature gown at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2011.

The Elie Saab gown featured exquisitely designed embroidery.

Swift stole the show at the 2013 ACM Awards in a glittering metallic gown.

“Taylor Swift sported a gown befitting country royalty on Sunday, stealing the show at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas in a stunning metallic dress,” Eleanor Gower at Daily Mail wrote in 2012 about the Dolce & Gabbana dress.

Swift chose a bold pop of color at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards in honor of her album “Red.”

The see-through top and floor-length dress were also designed by Elie Saab.

She kept with the red theme at the 2012 CMA Awards.

“Taylor Swift stunned in a show-stopping Jenny Packham number with sparking red detailing,” Billboard wrote in their best-dressed ranking in 2012.

She chose a daring, see-through dress for the Golden Globes in 2019.

The Versace, off-the-shoulder gown also featured a high slit. The look was especially memorable because Swift was not even expected to attend the event.

The musician returned to her signature sparkle for the Grammy Awards in 2014.

“It’s really heavy,” Swift told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet about her Gucci dress. “It’s everything you’d expect it to be. It’s like a suit of armor.”

MyDaily UK named Swift the best-dressed celebrity of the night.

For the 2016 Country Music Awards, Swift wore a stunning sheer gown.

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The intricate and see-through gown was designed by Julien Macdonald. Avery Matera of Teen Vogue called the “glamorous, edgy look” “the ultimate optical illusion.”

Swift blended in with the supermodels at the Victoria’s Secret after-party in 2014 with this striking dress.

The Zuhair Murad gown featured a tall slit and a sheer top. Swift helped the fashion show to get sky-high ratings — the event pulled in 9.2 million viewers when it aired.

For the 2014 Met Gala, Swift went with a dreamy Oscar de la Renta gown.

“Oscar de la Renta is the designer I’ve idolized since I was a little girl,” Swift told Us Weekly on the red carpet. “Having an opportunity to wear a one-of-kind gown designed by him is a daydream realized.”

Emma Sarran Webster and Donya Momenian at Teen Vogue said that Swift nailed the theme, writing that the “Oscar de la Renta dress was the perfect combination of soft and subtle in the front, and dramatic and head-turning in the back— a quintessential Met Ball dress.”

After taking two years off from the spotlight, Swift returned to the red carpet in this gown at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards.

The Versace dress took more than 800 hours to make and made for the perfect memorable comeback look.

“My first award show in a few years and it was so much fun thanks to you,” Swift wrote in an Instagram caption. “I love you guys. PS thanks @versace for this ✨delicate✨ dress.”

The Grammy winner turned heads with her patterned gown at the 2019 premiere of “Cats.”

It would be difficult to forget this bold look — the silk gown was designed by Oscar de la Renta and cost a whopping $17,990.

She stuck with the pattern style for the Golden Globes in 2020 with this ball gown.

“Wearing a voluminous silk dress from Etro, Taylor certainly made a statement when she stepped out of the car and onto that scarlet step-and-repeat,” Avery Matera at Teen Vogue wrote in 2020.

At the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Swift broke away from her gowns and chose a plaid jumpsuit.

The Carmen March outfit featured a plaid trench coat and matching heels. Vogue reporter Janelle Okwudu was also a fan of the look, saying the singer arrived “looking like a boss.”

Swift channeled her punk rock side at the 2013 Met Gala.

In 2013, the Met Gala was themed “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” and Swift chose a J. Mendel gown adorned with gold embellishments. Teen Vogue commented that Swift “fully embraced” the theme, and we can’t help but agree.

She went with an elegant and simple black gown for the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2016.

The Alexandre Vauthier gown had a plunging neckline and high slit, which is more daring than we’re used to seeing on Swift.

Swift returned to her roots when she wore yet another sequined look at the American Music Awards in 2018.

“The singer turned heads on the red carpet in a long-sleeved dress made of small, silver reflective panels,” Insider’s Lucy Yang wrote at the time. “She paired the Balmain minidress with matching thigh-high stiletto boots, also by the French fashion house.”

The look is especially memorable as Swift wore it in a promotional image for her Netflix documentary “Miss Americana.”

At the 2021 premiere of her short film “All Too Well,” Swift again stayed away from her signature gowns.

The maroon pantsuit was a deviation from her other memorable looks, but the velvet made her look even more sophisticated and the different silhouette was undoubtedly memorable.

For the 2022 American Music Awards, Swift wore a sparkling jumpsuit with a backless halter top.

The Blonds designed Swift’s suit, which also had a deep-V neckline, a satin belt, and gold sequins from top to bottom.

She paired it with gold heels, dagger-shaped earrings, and layers of metallic jewelry.

While co-chairing the Met Gala in 2016, Taylor Swift rocked a noticeably different look.

Fashion legend and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour may have had a hand in conceptualizing Swift’s look for the 2016 Met Gala — and her style in general during that time.

“We very much wanted to give Taylor a new look, make her into a sort of a rock ‘n’ roll chick,” Wintour told Today of her inspiration for Swift’s May 2016 Vogue cover.

For the theme, the “Blank Space” singer topped off her metallic Louis Vuitton dress with a new platinum blonde ‘do and strappy black heels. The ensemble is made even more memorable due to rumors that Swift met her boyfriend Joe Alwyn while attending the event.

“Flashback when you met me / Your buzzcut and my hair bleached,” she sings in “Dress,” which appears on her album “Reputation.”

Swift wore a floral-covered dress and matching face mask to the 2021 Grammys.

“In a bountiful display of late-summer’s glory, botanical appliqués are tacked on individually to complete the look,” Oscar de la Renta said of the custom dress.

To attend the VMA 2022 after-party, Swift wore a blue satin romper embellished with silver stars.

She paired the jewel-toned dress with silver platform heels and a white faux fur coat. The look is particularly memorable as it ushered in the singer’s “Midnights” style era, which has been heavily marked by star motifs and blue tones.

She wore one of her boldest looks to date at the 2022 MTV EMAs in Duesseldorf, Germany.

She wore a sleeveless David Koma design that featured a black bodysuit with a plunging sweetheart neckline, and an emerald-covered, see-through skirt.

At the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift dazzled in a bejeweled minidress dripping with diamonds.

Swift’s statement-making Oscar de la Renta ensemble was the perfect look to announce her latest release, “Midnights.”

Vogue reporter Christian Allaire also caught on to the “switch-up” in Swift’s style, especially compared to what she wore during her “Folklore” era.

“These dance floor-worthy ensembles are certainly a far cry from the laid-back, nature-forward looks she wore during her last album promo,” Allaire wrote.

Swift wore her most daring and most memorable look to date at the 2016 Grammy Awards.

“The 26-year-old, who is nominated for seven awards, shone in a two-piece orange and pink ensemble by Versace, which she styled with a brand-new bob and her signature cat-eye,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote at the time.

She won three Grammys that night, including album of the year for “1989.”

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by developmentally inappropriate and impairing inattention, motor hyperactivity, and impulsivity, with difficulties often continuing into adulthood (Thapar et al., 2016). ADHD is pervasive and developmentally inappropriate difficulties with attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Symptoms cause significant impairments at home and in school and are associated with a number of behavioral difficulties such as aggression and noncompliance (Barkley, 2006). Research also suggests that children with ADHD are more likely than typically developing classmates to be rejected socially and to have greater difficulties with their peers (Hinshaw, 2002).

ADHD is diagnosed when an individual has chronic and serious inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity that are present in multiple settings and give rise to social difficulties (Hallahan et al., 2012). Students with ADHD can be diagnosed as the predominantly inattentive type, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type, or combined type. Between 3% and 7% of the school-age population has been diagnosed with ADHD, and it is identified more frequently in boys than in girls. Researchers state that problems with neurological dysfunction can be observed in the classroom through diminished self-regulation and/or executive control abilities, such as the inability to wait for one’s turn, refrain from interrupting conversations, follow rules and instructions, and control emotions and impulsive responses (Hallahan et al.).

Physical education class contains vast benefits for those who suffer from ADHD.  Exercise helps students to cope more effectively with stress, have a more positive identity, and have clearer thoughts and improved memory (Akande et al., 2000). Exercise can increase mental performance in the parts of the brain involved in memory, attention, spatial perception, language, and emotion (Olsen, 1994), and there are indications that movement can strengthen learning and memory, as well as boost motivation and morale (Jensen, 2005). Other evidence indicates that exercise activities used throughout the day can help improve academic performance and can reduce disruptive classroom and social behavior problems (Barkley, 2004).

In order for ADHD students to effectively benefit from physical education and exercise, the content must be presented in a way that is palatable for those with special needs.  Conventional approaches, where the instructor introduces a task and has students practice for lengthy periods of time, may be ineffective. The key to actively engaging ADHD participants is to have a toolbox of approaches and the flexibility to utilize them. These will include collaborative partnerships and the need to implement various behavior management practices and specific academic learning strategies (Mulrine et al., 2014).

Developing positive partnerships among school professionals through collaboration can increase the likelihood of treatment success (DuPaul et al., 2003). Collaborative consultation involves an equal partnership between two partners (e.g., school psychologist and classroom teacher) to define a problem and develop interventions. This model is in contrast to the traditional, expert model of consultation where a school psychologist prescribes interventions based on teacher input (Erchul et al., 2002). Several studies have demonstrated that collaborative consultation leads to effective academic interventions for the majority of students with ADHD (DuPaul et al., 2006). The most effective outcomes are found when teachers take the lead during the problem identification stage of the collaborative relationship and consultants lead when strategies to address problems are discussed and designed (Erchul et al., 2007; Erchul et al., 2009). In most collaborative consultation relationships, teachers are the experts regarding their classroom, curriculum, and the target student’s difficulties, while the consultant typically is the expert regarding empirically supported interventions to address student difficulties. The most successful outcomes occur when there is reciprocal recognition of these complementary areas of expertise (DePaul et al., 2011).

Behavioral interventions involve modifications to the environment that directly address the impairment. A variety of antecedent-based interventions has been used to try to prevent inattentive and disruptive behaviors from occurring. Antecedents are events that precede and may trigger the occurrence of a specific behavior. First, teachers can post and strategically review classroom rules (DuPaul et al., 2006). Rules should be few in number, phrased in a positive manner (i.e., tell students what to do, not just the behaviors to avoid), and posted in full view of all students. Rules should be clearly explained at the beginning and periodically throughout the year. Further, teachers should frequently praise students who are following the classroom rules. Children with ADHD may need to have rules posted in closer proximity (e.g., printed on an index card affixed to their desk) and should be provided with more frequent praise when following rules (Pfiffner et al., 2006).

Another antecedent-based strategy frequently recommended for students with ADHD is to reduce task demands by modifying the length and/or content of assignments (Dunlap et al., 1994; DuPaul et al., 2003). Reducing the length of an assignment to match students’ attention spans, may reduce off-task, disruptive behavior. This strategy is paired with teacher praise contingent on task completion. As students demonstrate success with shorter assignments, the length of assignments can be gradually increased, thereby shaping task-related behavior to match classroom norms.

A final example of an antecedent-based strategy is to provide students with task choices when given classwork assignments. Choice-making interventions allow students to choose among two or more concurrently presented options (e.g., assignments to complete, sequence of steps within an assignment, or partners for assigned activities). The various options should all lead to similar outcomes; for example, students could choose an assignment from a menu of possible assignments all of which involve the practice of the same specific academic skill. Dunlap et al. (1994) examined the effects of choice-making for several students with disruptive behavior disorders and ADHD. When students were provided with assignment choices, they showed higher rates of task engagement and lower frequency of disruptive behavior relative to class sessions when teachers chose the specific assignments (DuPaul et al., 2011).

There are a number of key learning strategies that can aid in the learning experiences of ADHD students, but the most inclusive for all students is the universal design for learning (UDL). The UDL is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. There are three aspects of lesson planning for effective universal design to support various levels of underlying functional abilities. These modification areas are (1) equipment, (2) rules, and (3) instruction (Lieberman et al., 2008). Content can be delivered using multiple instructional approaches. Physical educators can apply approaches like station teaching, cooperative learning, and guided discovery as different methods to deliver their content.  The shortness and the variety of the tasks presented can engage students for a longer period of time (Mulrine et al., 2014).

In cooperative learning, a task with a specific goal can be presented to the students and broken up into small groups. Consequently, the group has to work together to reach the goal established within the task. This interaction has the potential to keep all of the students focused on reaching the goal(s). Activities can include rotation of demonstrators, rotation of captains, help with assessments, taking attendance, managing equipment, and leading the warm-up and cool-down. During each lesson, the teacher can rotate the leadership roles. Another example of UDL is to consider the level of attention and self-responsibility of the student with ADHD. Variations for skill components can include the use of instructional assistants to cue and help students to stay on task, peer helpers, visual and written task directions, independent station work, or mini-games (Lieberman et al., 2008).

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The official ‘party season’ might now be behind us (SOB) but that’s not stopping Khloé Kardashian from continuing to serve epic going-out lewks. To tie in with the Kardashian’s new cover shoot for Sorbet magazine, KoKo repped a handful of glam pieces, including a metallic mesh mini dress.

The look in question, designed by Prada, features the Italian house’s iconic triangular logo plate underneath a rounded collar, with the sleeveless design reminiscent of Prada’s white tank top that went viral last year. Khloé finishes the outfit with a pair of matching glitzy pointed pumps featuring a chunky gold chain anklet.

As for hair and makeup, the 38-year-old wears her hair down in loose, voluminous waves, complete with a full fringe French-girl style. Issa look alright, see it for yourself:

Kylie Jenner commented, “gorg ❤️” and Chris Appleton added, “U sexy 🔥” while other fans wrote:

Sorbet shared the Power Issue cover, starring Khloé, on its own account, writing:

“There aren’t many people in the world that need no introduction and Khloé Kardashian is one of them. But here goes: since 2007 and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Khloé has been a TV screen mainstay.

“The youngest of the three sisters – and we at Sorbet don’t play favorites – but the words ‘favorite’ and ‘Khloé’ do seem to be spoken in the same sentence around here a lot. Still a TV star, Khloé has also launched fashion brand Good American, cosmetic collections with her sister Kylie, fragrance with her sister Kim… the list goes on.

“She made ‘the revenge body’ a thing with a fitness transformation, and holy smokes, she looks better than ever, covering our 38th issue in head-to-toe Prada.”

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NEW YORK — As he ends his first year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has rebranded one of the top political jobs in the country.

After 12 years of Mike Bloomberg — a nasally technocrat disgusted by partisan politics — and two terms of liberal Bill de Blasio — a hyper-partisan Democrat who found himself at odds with virtually everyone in the business — Adams made his own idiosyncratic mark on the office.

The self-professed mayor of “swagger,” whose press conferences were even spoofed on Saturday Night Live, Adams has injected the role with the bravado of past New York City mayors like John Lindsay, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani. He embraces the 1 percent and the poorest communities alike and shrugs off persistent questions about his ties to people with criminal histories. He teams up with Republicans when convenient and lambasts his own party for acquiescing to the far left.

This new type of sharp-dressing, crime-fighting Democrat — who can sound like Donald Trump when denouncing “woke” progressives while also preaching deep blue values of expanded health care, workplace diversity and childcare tax credits — has emerged at a time when his party is searching for its next generation of leaders.

But the results of his typically-bold approaches to intractable urban ills like crime and homelessness are uneven. Adams vowed to reduce homelessness and improve public safety, but only with dramatic sweeps of encampments and forced hospitalizations. He revived a controversial NYPD unit that’s helped reduce gun violence, but robberies and felony assaults have continued to increase. Still, Adams isn’t backing off his brand at home — or in his quest to give national Democrats a model for how to reduce crime while ensuring just policing practices.

“We have not been bold enough to say this is what we stand for with quality of message. If you say, ‘Oh, hey, that guy Eric Adams, the mayor of New York,’ they’re going to say: ‘Public safety. The guy believes his city should be safe,’” Adams said in an interview.

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Rev. Al Sharpton said Adams’ message is getting across.

“One of the things I hear in the city and around the country is, ‘Eric is not intimidated by the right or the left,’ which is refreshing to a lot of people,” Sharpton said in an interview.

“He’s taken on both sides and I think he’s earned a lot of national respect for that,” Sharpton added. “This guy is not a punk.”

A credible messenger on safety and justice

Sharpton, who didn’t endorse in the mayoral race but has lately become a vocal supporter of Adams, extolled the mayor’s credibility on matters of public safety and justice — even as the progressive wing of his party battles him at every turn on his anti-crime strategies including changes to bail reform.

While working within the NYPD in 1995, Adams helped found 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, an advocacy group that took on misconduct, brutality and racism in policing. The unusual role earned him unwanted nicknames from “Uncle Tom to sellout to…Negro to oppressor,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross in 2016 when he was Brooklyn borough president.

Adams’ mantra in the crowded Democratic mayoral primary promised that police could reduce crime without using abusive or discriminatory tactics. He offered a full-throated defense of the controversial stop and frisk policing tactic, but only when used correctly to get guns off the streets.

“I think that has become a national model that people in the base, Black and white, want — somebody that will protect them and their rights at the same time, not having to choose between the two,” Sharpton said.

Sharpton acknowledged that the NYPD’s own progress report isn’t great for Adams. Overall, crime has climbed 25 percent since he took office, according to police statistics.

“But he’s only been there a year,” Sharpton said. And there’ve been no major instances of police misconduct.

What Adams has proven is this: He can be both a critic and fierce defender of the nation’s largest police force, showing how Democrats can embrace policing and win an election after an unsuccessful party shift leftward on criminal justice.

“I am going to stand up for those Democrats who strongly believe we can have public safety and justice,” Adams said in a City Hall interview this week.

His rhetoric — welcomed by police leaders who went to war with de Blasio — has also set him up to be judged on an issue he can’t entirely control.

The ‘Contain the chaos’ lane

Some fellow Democrats criticized Adams for stoking crime fears used by Republicans in the midterms as he constantly called attention to violence around the city. But one political observer said the midterm election results show how Adams could resonate with voters beyond the five boroughs.

“People were really coming to candidates on, ‘The city needs to be cleaner, and we need to stop the madness,’” Democratic consultant John DeSio, who was communications director for former Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., said about the midterms in New York — where Republicans picked up three House seats and came unexpectedly close to taking back the governor’s office.

The single biggest issue for voters was crime.

“I’d see why he would want to say, ‘If I can contain New York City, imagine what I could do nationally. If I could do it here, then this model could work anywhere,” added DeSio, who was not involved in any midterm races.

“You don’t have to go totally down the far-left, progressive path, you could take this middle road,” added DeSio.

It’s a similar path tread by other moderate Democrats that Adams feels a kinship with — from President Joe Biden to Senator-elect John Fetterman and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner.

Beyond crime, Adams is facing the same problems of the nation’s other urban areas: rekindling the economy after Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns, building new housing and finding relief for working families during record inflation.

“We can be pro-business because that feeds jobs. Wee can lean into quality education — all those things that we stand for, we have to be loud and clear for,” Adams said.

But as he projects outward control, his management style has prompted internal chaosin some wings of City Hall. The political division is beset with infighting underscored by murky lines of authority. Two of his top aides — Chief of Staff Frank Carone and First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo — are leaving after just one year, which both said was always their plan. And he has withstood continued public criticism for several high-profile, controversial hires.

‘There’s never going to be another mayor like me’

Despite the blue-collar cred he shares with Biden, the inability to box him and Fettermen into neat political categories and a similar hardscrabble upbringing as Turner, Adams has taken to saying, “There’s never going to be another mayor like me.”

In a city full of made-for-TV characters, Adams has gushed about his love for rose petal-strewn bubble baths while sowing doubts about where he actually lives.

POLITICO first reported during the mayoral primary that Adams kept a residence in New Jersey, welcomed late-night visitors to the Brooklyn Borough Hall office where he slept during the pandemic and repeatedly revised tax forms about his supposed primary residence in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

It’s unclear how much time Adams spends at Gracie Mansion, the city’s official mayoral residence, but he does occasionally crash at the Trump World Tower pad of a close pal who pleaded guilty in 2014 to conspiracy to cause the filing of false currency transactions reports in a money laundering scheme.

The once-avowed vegan — until POLITICO discovered he frequently dines on fish— often holds court at an Italian restaurant in midtown Manhattan with that same friend, Johnny Petrosyants. The duo also frequents Zero Bond, a members-only downtown club favored by celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Tom Brady.

Adams recently took his “nightlife mayor” guise abroad, partying in Qatar while attending the World Cup earlier this month.

When critics questioned the international jaunt, Adams said he paid his own way.

“When I do my dime, I can do my time and I don’t want to hear anyone whine,” he rhymed to reporters at a press conference.

Last time he gave a similar explanation at a Puerto Rico junket after his general election victory, it turned out he had bummed a ride on cryptocurrency billionaire Brock Pierce’s jet. Then apparently reimbursed him. Through a travel agent. With a check.

The mayor’s nightlife aside, his future depends on how well he does his day job.

“If he solves the problems in front of him it’ll be like, ‘He’s this charming rogue fixing the city by day and enjoying it at night,” DeSio said. “If you don’t accomplish your agenda you create the hit piece talking point for people running against you — you’re too busy running around at clubs.”

White House aspirations

The day after narrowly winning the mayoral primary in June 2021, Adams declared himself the ‘face of the new Democratic Party.’ A month later, he accepted an invitation to the White House to discuss gun violence and renamed himself the ‘Biden of Brooklyn’ for the “plain-talk” ways he shared with the president.

In February, shortly after Adams was sworn into office, Biden visited NYPD headquarters for a summit on gun violence with the mayor, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Since then, Adams has penned op-eds for national publications on how to shore up support among Black and lower-income voters, includinga CNN column on why it would benefit Democrats to make South Carolina the party’s first presidential primary state.

He said in another interview with POLITICO last month that he wants to make sure his party retains the presidency in 2024 and said he told party leaders: “Any way you guys need to use me, I’m willing to help.” he recalled during the sit-down.

In the interview this week, Adams suggested he could be an evangelist for Democrats who are portrayed as weak-on-crime even though they’ve pushed for laws restricting guns and advocated for more money for policing.

“I think the Democrats have a good product. We’re just not selling it,” he said.

In the meantime he’s working to secure his own political future, fundraising across the country, putting his outgoing chief of staff in charge of his re-election campaign and bidding to host the 2024 Democratic presidential nominating convention in Manhattan.

But when Adams appeared in a national presidential survey of likely voters in August, he landed toward the bottom of a list of 25 Democrats that voters would choose in a primary election if Biden doesn’t run — landing between Sens. Joe Manchin and Tim Kaine.

A national urban agenda

Adams frequently speaks about the importance of a “new, national urban agenda” focused on treating the “pandemic of violence that holds our cities back.” The agenda includes a reliance on law enforcement and programs like youth mentoring. It’s what he calls “intervention and prevention.”

The mayor’s emergency response to homelessness is catching on. Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness on her first day in office this month, a move aimed at quickly getting people off the streets before getting them other kinds of help. The approach is similar to the one taken by Adams, who often pledges both social services for long-term solutions but also immediate action to remove unhoused people encampments and subways.

Asked on “Meet the Press” if she might replicate Adams’ controversial plan to force some mentally ill homeless people into hospitals, Bass didn’t say no. Instead, she noted recent state legislation that allows institutionalizing “profoundly mentally ill” people.

A spokesperson for Bass did not respond to requests for comment.

Adams speaks regularly with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, another leading Democrat.

“The top priority for any mayor is to keep all residents safe,” Lightfoot said in a statement.

“I know Mayor Adams shares the same goal as I do, which is to make our cities some of the safest in America. As a former police captain in the NYPD, Mayor Adams recognizes preventing violent, dangerous people from causing harm is a core pillar of any public safety strategy,” she said in part.

Adams, Bass, Lightfoot and Turner — four Black mayors leading the country’s four largest cities, a first — are starting to collaborate on how to address similar problems their areas share, Bass said in a recent interview with WBUR. 

Clashes with AOC

Adams’ loudest critics, left-leaning members of his own party, view him as an emperor with no clothes.

“The one thing that I think needs to be said is, Eric Adams’ brand of politics is Eric Adams, and I don’t think it’s shared by nearly anyone else,” said Bill Neidhardt, a progressive consultant who worked as press secretary to de Blasio and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Neidhardt questioned whether Adams even belongs in the Democratic fold.

“If you want a politician who talks like Eric Adams, you’re more likely to vote in the Republican Party,” Neidhardt said. “He wants people to think he’s the leader of the moderates, but I would even scoff at that. Joe Biden talks a far more progressive game, actually brings in progressive members of the Democratic Party, not outwardly declaring war on them.”

Adams has openly clashed with another New Yorker with cross-country appeal, Bronx Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The two have tussled since before Adams took office with the mayoral candidate warning donors at a 2021 fundraiser that “DSA socialists” were mobilizing against his campaign.

Then Adams panned Ocasio-Cortez’s “Tax the Rich” dress at the Met Gala, noting that the wealthiest New Yorkers provide over half of its income taxes – which is used to fund essential services.At a recent gathering of city business leaders, he lambasted those who “continually attack high income earners, where 51 percent of our taxes are paid by 2 percent of New Yorkers. It’s blowing my mind when I hear people say, ‘So what if they leave?’ No, you leave,” he said, to applause.

Ocasio-Cortez attacked Adams on Twitter for calling service sector employees “low skill workers.”

Most recently, the congresswoman took issue with the mayor blaming the state’s bail laws for the party’s midterm losses andhis ongoing fight to limit who is released without bail.

“Nope,” she tweeted in response to Adams’ remarks Nov. 10 on MSNBC.

“The sooner we stop repeating false Republican talking points, the sooner we can flip these seats back blue,” she wrote.

Beyond New York, Neidhardt noted, Democrats’ “closing arguments” in the midterms, including messaging by Biden, did not focus on crime.

“It was economic, abortion rights, not a get-tough-on-crime message. No successful Democrat ran with his message,” Neidhardt said.

Progressive opponents are beginning to mull who could take on Adams in a 2025 re-election bid, with some reasoning his record on making New York more affordable could prove more damaging to his chances than his pro-police rhetoric — particularly if he can reduce crime.

While he successfully pushed for the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, he also oversaw one of the largest increases in rent-stabilized leases in a decade. One Democratic Socialist legislator ran the New York City marathon with a T-shirt that read, “Eric Adams Raised My Rent.”

Adams, at once prickly and tough, appears undaunted by his critics.

“2023 is going to be a Aaron Judge year for me,” he said at a recent press conference, referring to his first 12 months in office as “my rookie season.”

He added, “2023, we are going to a whole other level.”

Alex Nieves and Shia Kapos contributed reporting.