President Biden is set to make a heavily promoted visit to the Big Apple on Thursday to discuss the city’s gun violence crisis with Mayor Eric Adams — but the big winner is likely to be the struggling commander-in-chief and not terrified locals, political experts predict.

Veteran Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said that when it comes to guns, “it’s always hard to get the federal government to do much” because it “doesn’t have the bodies and doesn’t have the authority to do what’s really required.”

“What could occur here is the announcement of federal money to be used to create task forces between federal offices and local law enforcement, deputizing of New York City and other local and regional police departments with US marshals, who can then go across state lines to do what has to be done — picking up guns and arresting people,” he said Wednesday.

But at the end of the day, Sheinkopf said, “The great beneficiary is Biden because Biden needs Adams more than Adams needs Biden.”

“He needs a national symbol of centrist politics that encapsulates the idea that Democrats are not just about disorder, but about restoring order, especially to America’s largest city,” Sheinkopf said of Biden.

Another Democratic communications consultant said, “I think that this is an opportunity for Biden to talk about his vision on crime” amid his plunging poll numbers and following the Jan. 21 deadly ambush of two NYPD cops in Harlem.

“Because New York is New York, people care what happens here,” the expert said.

“I guess it’s a stunt insofar as everything you do publicly is a stunt, but I think it’s very important. It’s a big deal.”

A law enforcement source said that Biden’s meeting with Adams  — which the White House has said will cover “the Administration’s comprehensive strategy to combat gun crime,” including a crackdown on gun traffickers — “sounds nice.”

“But in reality, we need help getting the guns that are already here in the closets and under the car seats,” the source said. “They are a much bigger problem than guns coming up from the South.”

The source added: “Federal money will help us expand the existing task forces that we already have, by allowing us to buy more equipment and add more personnel.

“However, the feds can’t help us if two 16-year-olds get arrested tonight on the corner with a gun and they don’t have a previous conviction,” the source said, alluding to a 2017 law that raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18.

City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) predicted that the meeting would largely consist of grievances aired and empty promises made.

“They’re going to spend half the time blaming laws in Tennessee or something on gun crimes here, and then they’re going to talk about how we need to reform laws, and we need prosecutors to really throw the book at gun crimes and that sort of thing,” he said.

Borelli also said that “the most significant thing about this is the president’s shift on policing…toward the position of Eric Adams and other moderate Democrats, who are progressive on a number of issues but moderate on policing.”

“In 2020, just 18 months ago, the summer of 2020, it’d be hard to imagine the leading voice of the Democratic Party doing an event at One Police Plaza with Democrats who say we have to take a rational approach to policing,” he said.

Chris Coffey, who worked for former Mayor Mike Bloomberg and is now co-CEO of the Tusk Strategies campaign company, also said the planned meeting at NYPD headquarters showed how far the “pendulum has swung” since former Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014.

The brick pavers in front of One Police Plaza were power-washed Tuesday in preparation for Biden’s visit.

The president will be accompanied by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other elected leaders will take part in the sit-down, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

Biden will also watch a meeting of NYPD brass and officials from other law enforcement agencies at NYPD headquarters, a high-ranking police source said.

“It’s a daily meeting that started five months ago. A few dozen partners hold this meeting,” the source said.

After the visit to One Police Plaza, Biden, Garland, Adams, Hochul and other officials are scheduled to meet with community leaders at a school in Queens to discuss local efforts to stop gun violence.

Biden has long been a proponent of community policing and in May called for a nearly 70 percent increase in funding for the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, with $537 million earmarked for hiring more local cops.

But Congress hasn’t acted on the plan and in November the Justice Department announced just $139 million for new police hires.

New York City didn’t get any of that money and five other municipalities across the state only got enough money for a total of six additional officers.

Additional reporting by Steven Nelson