4 questions in the air at Somos, New York’s political confab

A feeling of unreality is in the air at Somos, the annual New York political confab in Puerto Rico, where attendees are keeping up their pace of frenzied schmoozing even as Donald Trump’s victory promises a turbulent new era.“We lost. What are you going to do?” shrugged one lobbyist at an opening-night reception at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan. The sense of resignation is a far cry from the shock and horror in Democratic circles after Trump’s first win in 2016 — although New York politicos are only beginning to grapple with the Republican Party’s major gains in the five boroughs.“We still have to have specific conversations about how to move forward and what to do,” state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, the chair of the Bronx Democratic Party, told Crain’s on Thursday, acknowledging that he hadn’t fully processed the GOP’s significant inroads in his own borough. “Is there something to do? Certainly, there is, and what that is is going to be played out in the days and weeks and months to come.”Others had already made up their minds about the implications of Trump’s win.“It’s going to be a f---ing nightmare,” said Allen Roskoff, a veteran Manhattan Democratic Party activist. “It’s going to be the worst four years of our lives.”In conversations with some of the elected officials, lobbyists and strategists in attendance at this year’s Somos conference, a few big questions predominate.Will Trump’s win help Eric Adams, or hurt him?New York’s Democratic mayor, indicted in September by... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

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