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In today’s edition we continue our dive into the New York mayoral race, with a look at the less-than-Marquis-of-Queensberry tactics that the Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo campaigns are keeping in reserve.

We ask why exactly a new age guru and an app that has been accused of dispensing mob justice are unlikely friends.

And we wish a very happy birthday to Rupert Murdoch, 94 today, with a look at the varied raft of projects, from Ken Auletta, Claire Atkinson, Jim Rutenberg, Gabriel Sherman, Matt Tyrnauer and Liz Garbus about the man, his life and his family that are currently in the works.

Plus a talent exodus at The Daily Beast, and the curious case of ABC News’s medical expert and her double duties.

The one Adams attack Cuomo fears, and Cuomo's plan to fight back

Back in January, as Andrew Cuomo mulled entering the mayoral race, he and his team examined the three-dimensional tea-leaves of a potential campaign.

Eric Adams, the incumbent mayor, has been accused in a criminal indictment of conspiracy, wire fraud, soliciting illegal foreign campaign contributions from foreign nationals, and bribery. The Trump administration has asked that those charges be dropped, and Adams has been accused of making a deal with the White House. (He denies all of it.)

But Cuomo and his team, according to two people familiar with the discussions, remained so preoccupied with one other issue that it was even felt that he might opt not to run…

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