Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that he is dropping out of the crowded race for the Democratic nomination in a redrawn Congressional district that includes his Brooklyn home.
“Time for me to leave electoral politics and focus on other ways to serve.”joined race for the redrawn 10th Congressional District,Other candidates running in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary in the district include Rep. Mondaire Jones, who moved to the area after being redistricted out of the seat he now holds in the suburbs north of New York City, former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who last served in Congress in 1981, and former House impeachment counsel Daniel Goldman.
Recent polling has placed de Blasio near the bottom of the field of 10 Democrats seeking to represent the 10th Congressional District.
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