First, New Yorkers used to like Giuliani.
Second, thereâre differences between wanting you as mayor and wanting you as president.
Having New Yorkers like you canât make up for the general antipathy for New Yorkers in the rest of the country. New York is a tiny speck comparatively and the failure to get that is part of what we hate about New Yorkers.
Does his first election really count? De Blasio kind of won by default in that one.
Anthony Weiner would have been elected mayor if it wasnât for his scandals. So Weinerâs downfall was to De Blasioâs benefit.
Further proof that nobody is more provincial than a self-appointed-important type who lives in NYC.
Um, not really. Weiner might have put in a good showing but he was not going to be Mayor. As for DeB, ignore him, this will be his last go round. Heâll have plenty of competition (if he bothers to run) next election from some really good Dems whoâre smelling blood in the water.
Since you are a New Yorker, I will defer to you on this. 
Seriously? That is the only reason you can imagine? Wow. Not a ringing endorsement of his critical thought abilitiesâŚ
Mayorâyou have a ârelevant-abilityâ problem. Go away.
Using âelected me twiceâ as a benchmark puts him in the same elite group as Dubya, the twice elected governor of Texas and president of the US. But Kudos to Bash for asking the hard question that is most relevant to women who stand to lose their right to choose, âDo you have a likability problem?â.
In many ways, he won due to the weak backbench of the NYC GOP. I mean, Malliotakis, really???
He was re-elected with two thirds of the vote. De Blasio is one of those everybody hates him but the voters guys.
DeBlasio is term limited in 2021. Iâm liking what Iâm seeing from the potential mayoral candidates particularly Eric Adams and Cory Johnson.
As far as Weiner is concerned he ran a strong primary race in 2005 but even if there was no scandal itâs doubtful he could have overtaken the other candidates in 2013.
Weiner was always fearless when it came to challenging Rethugs, especially Glenn Beck when he was a viable tv personality.
Bloomberg got the city charter changed so he could run for a third term. Did that apply only to him?
âFolks had to have liked me to have made me mayor of New York City twice,â
said Mayor deBlah-blah-blahsio.
I canât help being reminded of that famous Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover.
Any driving commuter trying to get in and around the five boros of New York would love to give DeBlasio a piece of their minds. Its obvious to me when he is sitting in traffic itâs a chance for him to catch up on texts,phone calls etc .I know he sure isnât driving in this craziness.
I didnât watch the segment, but I wonder if CNN asked him about any of his policies or if they just grabbed at the low hanging fruit that literally requires no brain power and only talked about personality issues. I get it, people donât like De Blasio, I donât know nor care about him, we have enough candidates (likeable and unlikable) already, just the politics of personality is why we have someone like Trump, because the media by and large focuses on things that donât matter to governing but the slavering reality tv watchers lap up. Going to be a long 18 monthsâŚ
âHeâll have plenty of competition (if he bothers to run) next election from some really good Dems whoâre smelling blood in the water.â
deBlasio cannot run for mayor again. Heâs term limited. Bloomberg, unbelievably got the city council to create an exception for him to run three times and then abolished it again.