Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio was riding high Monday, maintaining a substantial lead in yet another poll over Joe Lhota and collecting more than $1 million at a Manhattan fundraiser headlined by Hillary Clinton.

The 2 1/2-hour evening event at the Roosevelt Hotel was "extraordinarily successful," de Blasio told reporters afterward. He said his wife, Chirlane, introduced the former Secretary of State, "who really rallied the crowd." In her speech, she recalled her successful 2000 U.S. Senate campaign was "in good hands" with fellow Democrat de Blasio at the helm, he said. "She paralleled that in a very touching way to the choice New Yorkers have to make about their next mayor and what values you're looking for in a mayor," he added.