New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may be thinking of running for president, but many of those closest to him aren’t on board
The mayor has heard this criticism before. He contends it is the 24-7 task of running the country’s biggest city that gives him the necessary experience, should he take on this endeavor.
De Blasio has a tendency to speak in the stilted language of a college humanities professor. He gets driven 12 miles from his home on the Upper East Side to a gym in his old Brooklyn neighborhood every day. He parses the wording of questions from reporters and his own constituents before answering. One word many former staffers use to describe him: “arrogant.
Clinton ally Neera Tanden described de Blasio as “a bit insufferable” in private emails during the 2016 campaign, and Clinton's campaign manager mocked the mayor as a “terrorist” for his public statements of support for Sanders during their primary battle. A Clinton surrogate heckled him in Iowa while he was conducting a press conference. And he landed an undesirable mid-afternoon speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention.
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