The World Cup final came to town. The town grew 8 times larger.

Forget Zohran Mamdani. The local elected official who really rules MetLife Stadium today is Jeffrey Lahullier, whose 10,000-person town sees its population swell by more than 800 percent whenever there’s an event at the stadium complex in the middle of his turf, writes POLITICO’s Will McCarthy:

Read Will’s story “The World Cup came to town. The town grew eight times larger” here.