Bill de Blasio is ending his presidential campaign. 'I feel like I have contributed all I can to this primary election,' he said
Photo: SCOTT EISEN/Getty Images On Friday morning, there was a significant addition to the long list of people who believe Bill de Blasio should not be running for president: the New York mayor himself. De Blasio announced he would drop out of the 2020 race during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
“I feel like I have contributed all I can to this primary election. It’s clearly not my time, so I’m going to end my presidential campaign,” de Blasio said. Despite a list of progressive accomplishments in New York, such as universal pre-K and raising the minimum wage to $15, what de Blasio contributed to the primary race was mainly an opportunity to make jokes at his expense.
Were people in Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district rolling their eyes when their former congressman, Joe Sestak, entered the race? Maybe, but his entry into the race wasn’t met with this cover story from his hometown paper:
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