Strategists Unsure How Weiner Will Shake Up Race

Anthony Weiner “has not declared his candidacy, hired a staff or even held a news conference. But already, New York City’s mayoral contenders are strategizing about what they have to do to prevent the former Queens congressman from making it to City Hall,” the New York Times reports.

“There is no consensus about how Mr. Weiner would perform in the race, but he would almost certainly face intense scrutiny from the press — and attacks from his political opponents — over the sexually explicit online communications that prompted his resignation from Congress in 2011.”