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2019-09-22 Home Front: Politix
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The Sad, Slow Demise of de Blasio 2020
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Is it a demise when it's stillborn?
[NYMAG] "Is there some kind of party going on here? Why is everybody here?" said Mayor Bill de Blasio
 ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
, after walking down the back steps of Gracie Mansion with his wife, Chirlane McCray, by his side and surveying a throng of news hounds and cameras camped out on his back lawn.
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This was no party, and de Blasio knew damn well why the media had come: to dance on the grave of someone they had all said had no business running for president.
As it turned out, the New York City media was right, and the mayor ended his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination eight months after he had first floated his name as a potential candidate on CNN.
De Blasio had a story to tell ‐ of presiding over the nation’s largest city with a budget larger than 46 U.S. states, a police force the size of a small army, of keeping crime down and the economy humming, while implementing universal pre-K and reforming police practices and increasing wages. And when his campaign described the broad outlines of this story in internal polls, Democratic voters responded affirmatively, telling de Blasio’s pollsters that this was the kind of candidate they would consider for the Democratic nomination.
When they met the actual Bill de Blasio, however, the guy who tried to bait President Trump with a goofy "Con Don" hashtag, who could be scoldy and sanctimonious and who seemed to approach his day job with a scowl, it was another story. And in the public polls that show who is up and who is down, de Blasio was consistently down, unable to rise above one percent.
Part of the problem was that de Blasio was never much able to make his case to the actual voters. His presidential campaign was a part-time affair, with a bare-bones staff, even in the early primary states. It raised only a million dollars, a fraction of what most of his competitors have on hand. Instead of Iowa town halls or New Hampshire backyard meet and greets, the mayor mostly ran his campaign on cable television ‐ his staff would alert news hounds to his upcoming TV hits as if they were bona fide campaign events ‐ and at the Democratic cattle calls where voters and candidates would gather en masse.
Politics is de Blasio’s element, and the former wardheeler proved to be good on the stump, where he could talk about the kind of national and global and even moral issues that he couldn’t in New York, about income inequality and soaking the rich and driving a stake into the heart of the Republican Party. And he was good on cable too, where his occasional battles with Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity became appointment viewing ‐ especially because he was one the few Democrats with the desire or the need for that kind of airtime.
De Blasio’s best chance to break out was in the debates, and although he made an impression going after Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant ...
and Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
, with donations pouring in (on a relative scale, anyway) afterward, it wasn’t enough to vault de Blasio out of the bottom tier of candidates. He did not make the cutoff for the third debate, and it was looking unlikely that he would be able to reach either the polling or fundraising thresholds required to make the fourth debate next month.
His team was hopeful that after the September debate they would make it to the October one, but as the days rolled by, it became clear that it wasn’t going to happen.
"No one had to say anything. We all knew it," said Steve Jarding, a senior adviser to the campaign. "The donors just weren’t coming. Time was becoming the enemy.” 
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