The mayor of new York bill de Blasio on Thursday sent to Harvard Kennedy school, and then going to Nashua, new Hampshire. There he will meet with mayor Jim Concessum , and after that, maybe go to the diner, where he will meet with local residents. From my sources got the information, the magazine Рolitico and concluded that de Blasio is preparing to announce his nomination as a candidate for the presidency in 2020.
De Blasio in new Hampshire may declare the participation in Elections 2020
Mike Kaska, Director of communications for city hall, confirmed Рolitico the fact of the trip, leaving without comment the conclusions. The journal, continuing his thought, reports that on Friday, de Blasio will travel to Concord, where he will talk with community activists. Together with the mayor go to new Hampshire, his aides, which also has caused journalists suspicions. Mike Kaska had previously worked on the election campaign Bernie Sanders in 2016 Jacqueline Rothenberg and John Paul Lupo also have experience of the national political campaign.
The mayor of new York has repeatedly declared that does not exclude the possibility of the race and been looking at a national platform. But it discouraged the city hall officials, who privately told journalists and expressed regret over the fact that it will cause negative headlines and hurt de Blasio in their daily work. De Blasio has taken the initiative of his nomination in 2016, but has not coped with organizational issues and in the end supported Hillary Clinton. However, in the future, he criticized Clinton, as insufficiently left.
Now in his speeches and decisions as mayor of new York he has positioned himself as a Democrat, a socialist and almost a progressive. In his Arsenal of measures taken to NY to establish a two-year freeze rents for the apartments, the paid sick leave. Among the significant initiatives — NYC Care, pension funds for low-income workers
Рolitico in any case, already sketched abstracts for possible future attacks on candidate de Blasio. Experience as the mayor of metropolis will allow opponents to present him as a weak Manager that Despite his plan for affordable housing, the city remains too expensive for many residents. The number of homeless increased during his reign, and the state housing authority is in such dire Straits that the Federal monitoring. Remember the problems with the AIT and problems arising during every snow storm.
NYpost, appealed to Fairness PAC, working for De Blasio, asking why they hired the Aisle 518 Strategies, a major consulting organization, worked with Sanders for 2016 is whether this organizational preparations for the elections of 2020. Reviews from there, the journalists have not received. But an informed source among Democrats in Iowa, however, denied that the recruitment of this structure. Earlier, in January, the company’s founder Tim Tagaris, Director of digital technologies first presidential campaign, Sanders said he plans to work for another candidate.
Recall that the January Quinnipiac poll had already put de Blasio in the list of possible candidates for the presidency, figuring out the possible support levels. The first place of the season as a candidate to the White house was occupied by the former mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the second state Governor Andrew Cuomo. De Blasio received only 5% less than Ocasio-Cortez.
