Thursday, May 16, 2019

Unpopular mayor with no national following runs for president

I continue to be baffled by candidacies like this one. de Blasio's approval is underwater in his own city. Most of the rest of the country barely knows his name. We have an extremely crowded field in the democratic primary with several candidates that have a much higher national profile struggling to get their name out.

So what the frack is de Blasio thinking? Is he just trying to raise his national profile to maybe get himself a cabinet position later on? But how profile-raising can this contest be with so many candidates all hogging an increasingly small slice of the attention pie?