Bill de Blasio Drops House Bid, Decides to Quit Politics Instead
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday that he was ending his congressional campaign after polls showed that he had little chance of securing the Democratic nomination in the newly redrawn 10th Congressional District.
Admitting to having “made mistakes” in the past, de Blasio acknowledged in a video posted to his Twitter account that “people are looking for another option” to represent them in Congress and said it was “time” for him to “leave electoral politics and focus on other ways to serve.”
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It’s clear the people of #NY10 are looking for another option and I respect that. Time for me to leave electoral politics and focus on other ways to serve. I am really grateful for all the people I met, the stories I heard and the many good souls who helped out. Thank you all! pic.twitter.com/gpt6V6WLUf
— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) July 19, 2022
De Blasio’s decision to drop out of the race followed polls showing him far behind other Democratic contenders in the 10th District, which, starting in January 2023, will cover lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. One recent poll conducted by the left-wing Working Families Party indicated that de Blasio had just 3% support among likely primary voters, trailing a litany of rivals, including progressive state Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Rep. Mondaire Jones, and Dan Goldman, who was House Democrats’ lead counsel during the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
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The former mayor, who held public office in New York City continuously for two decades until he was succeeded by Mayor Eric Adams in January, left office with abysmal approval ratings. An October 2021 Siena College poll found that de Blasio’s favorability among New York Democrats was underwater by a double-digit margin and that former President Donald Trump, who lost the state to President Joe Biden by almost 23 points in the 2020 presidential election, actually commanded significantly higher favorability among New Yorkers.
The primary election is set to be held on Aug. 23. Given the overwhelmingly Democratic bent of the 10th Congressional District, the eventual Democratic nominee is expected to cruise to victory in November’s general election.
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