As he ends his presidential bid, Bill de Blasio returns to run a city he spent the last several months trying to get away from. freedlander reports
Bill de Blasio at his press conference on Friday. Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images “Is there some kind of party going on here? Why is everybody here?” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, after walking down the back steps of Gracie Mansion with his wife, Chirlane McCray, by his side and surveying a throng of reporters and cameras camped out on his back lawn.
De Blasio had a story to tell — of presiding over the nation’s largest city with a budget larger than 46 U.S. states, a police force the size of a small army, of keeping crime down and the economy humming, while implementing universal pre-K and reforming police practices and increasing wages.
Politics is de Blasio’s element, and the former political operative proved to be good on the stump, where he could talk about the kind of national and global and even moral issues that he couldn’t in New York, about income inequality and soaking the rich and driving a stake into the heart of the Republican Party.
“No one had to say anything. We all knew it,” said Steve Jarding, a senior adviser to the campaign. “The donors just weren’t coming. Time was becoming the enemy.” The whole campaign was in many ways a chance for de Blasio to get a hearing of the kind he doesn’t really get in New York among its press corps, which has long since grown tired of him. De Blasio believes himself to be a consequential figure on the national stage, one who presaged much of the liberal energy now sweeping the party. The city’s media is broadly disinclined to share that perspective.
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