Oh right, Schultz is around. I keep forgetting about him
Anyway, we already have too many white guys thinking they can “bring back the Trump voters” bloating the pool so this is gonna be a hard pass.
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This article is just another example of a TMZ and TPM crossover. Gross.
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Goddamn, this really is still 2016 but we’ve traded places with the GOP.
I can see how this ends, too.
Where are you going Bill De Blasio, one nation turns it’s lonely back to you. Woo woo woo. Mingia!
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I have lived in NYC for 40 years. I voted twice for Bill—once enthusiastically , the next time with reluctance and resignation. What a self absorbed jerk. Bored with the job he was elected to, which is as far from a success as it could be, so he wants a promotion? Ed Koch once said about whether he’d consider running for VP—I have the second hardest job in the Country. Why would I want the third hardest?
DO YOUR JOB.
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Samuel Johnson said, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”
NYC is more interesting than London.
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Nobody goes there anymore. it’s too crowded.
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Greater visibility for themselves and their issues, most likely. If they get into the first couple of debates, make a reasonable showing of highlighting the issues their potential constituents care about, and then ‘gracefully’ concede to focus on other races (Senate, House, Governor, etc), it could work pretty well for them.
Well he ain’t gonna get elected Mayor again, that’s for damned sure.
While it may be predictable, if De Blasio was doing a bang-up job as Mayor, they’d have to make it an attack based on his positions or his politics. Instead, it’s an attack based on New Yorkers’ opinions of him. He’s been terrible. In the winter, it can take days for streets in some parts of Queens to get plowed. The subways feel like we’re back in the first few years of the Koch administration. The whole tenor of various parts of the city has changed. I can’t remember the last time I even heard mention of anything he’d done right.
He wasn’t gonna get anywhere with those ideas, either.
This.
Of course, it’s not clear Trump had much expectation of doing more than building a mailing list and professing himself as a “serious contender” on the political scene either - until certain third parties stepped in to “help”.
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I know. I found myself in a Starbucks last weekend - my spouse refused to go to the just-off-the-road coffee house in Waco because they have even worse coffee than Starbucks (they tend to close the minute Baylor is out anyway). So I guess I broke my personal anti-Schultz boycott.
If anyone knows a good spot in Waco - that isn’t swamped with Joanna Gaines groupies - let me know!
/ O/T
I trust they’re all smart enough not to get on the same plane or train together, that’s for sure.
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Apologies for basically recycling my reply to an earlier thread: New Yorker here. I’m beyond exasperated at the surfeit of white guys in this race, and wish to goddess he’d decided not to do this, but I’m also baffled that my mayor is so widely derided. There’s plenty to criticize, some policy, some personal, but no more than most politicians. And he’s also kept some major campaign promises that required major effort to keep, like universal pre-K and ending stop-and-frisk – genuinely good, important stuff. So I can only attribute the depth of the outright contempt for him to reporters’ personal animus. But it can’t be that; journalists are never that shallow and irresponsible, right? (Screams into her “I’m With Her” pillow)
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The last New York City mayor who succeeded at ascending to higher office was John T. Hoffman, who won his bid for governor in 1869.
The last mayor to be elected to any office after serving in City Hall was Ardolph Loges Kline, who was briefly mayor in 1913 and later served as a congressman.
De Blasio ain’t so popular that he’s going to break that trend, and it doesn’t take high-level political chops to know that.
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It’s the timing. Anyone declaring this late as the 20-somethingth candidate is going to be greeted with an eyeroll and a grumble about another hole in the head.
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Thinking about TPM’s decision to go to Twitter and the NY Post for a piece on the reaction to De Blasio announcement…
They could have gone to the NYT article comments = almost universally negative + including one very funny one: “That’s gonna cut into Gillibrand’s 0%” 
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And that all is De Blasio’s fault? Could it be the trump/gop regime’s assault on democracy and Democrats?
I’m from San Diego, my problems aren’t his fault, they’re entirely the fault of mitch mcconnell and trump and the scum that do/enable their bidding.
But I have to say that I don’t think anyone from (in the soulfull sense) New York City should ever be President again, just to be on the safe side!
They’re auditioning for a gig as a TV pundit.
It is as pathetic as that.
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Half? More like more than three-quarters.
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How about The New York Times? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/opinion/bill-de-blasio-president.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
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