If New Yorkers won't back Bill de Blasio, nobody else will | Clio Chang

If New Yorkers won't back Bill de Blasio, nobody else will | Clio Chang

The presidential aspirations of New York’s mayor seem doomed already In recent history, no other potential presidential candidate has had a... 00:01:00

The presidential aspirations of New York’s mayor seem doomed already

In recent history, no other potential presidential candidate has had a more humiliating run of press coverage before even announcing their decision to run than the New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio.

“Is Bill de Blasio trying to escape New York City by running for president?” asked New York-based Observer. “De Blasio PAC spends $30m on ads urging candidate not to embarrass self by running,” wrote the Onion, not entirely unbelievably. New York magazine aggregated a listicle of everyone who has told the mayor he shouldn’t run. Among them: old advisers, “self-described friends”, recent advisers, his own wife.

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