{"id":1485549,"date":"2022-05-20T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485549"},"modified":"2022-05-20T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:30:52","slug":"bill-de-blasio-self-professed-expert-in-being-unpopular-announces-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-de-blasio-self-professed-expert-in-being-unpopular-announces-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill de Blasio, self-professed \u2018expert\u2019 in \u2018being unpopular,\u2019 announces run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-de-blasio-self-professed-expert-in-being-unpopular-announces-run-for-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485549&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would seek a term in Congress during an appearance Friday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1527645319554555905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> he would run in New York\u2019s 10th Congressional District, which will be redrawn under the newly proposed state congressional map expected to be finalized Friday. The district will include his Brooklyn residence, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/bill-de-blasio-nyc-mayor-run-redrawn-house-84856978?cid=social_twitter_abcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe polls show people are hurting. They need help. They need help fast and they need leaders who can actually get them help now and know how to do it,\u201d de Blasio said on MSNBC. \u201cI do know how to do it, from years of serving the people in this city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/18\/bill-de-blasio-not-running-new-york-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">De Blasio<\/a>, who ran a short-lived campaign for president in 2020, was incredibly unpopular towards the end of his time in office, with a Siena <a href=\"https:\/\/scri.siena.edu\/2021\/10\/19\/in-a-fall-preview-of-junes-primary-democrats-give-hochul-early-double-digit-lead-in-3-potential-candidate-scenarios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> released in October showing him with a favorability of 25% and an unfavorability of 56%. It was lower than the favorability of both former President Donald Trump and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BilldeBlasio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BilldeBlasio<\/a> announces his run for Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LXkcImS0w\">pic.twitter.com\/3LXkcImS0w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe\/status\/1527645319554555905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to being unpopular, I\u2019m unfortunately somewhat of an expert,\u201d de Blasio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-approval-2022-midterms\/629740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> in an April op-ed for The Atlantic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/new-york-court-rejects-congressional-map-gerrymandering-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: New York High Court Throws Out Congressional Map For \u2018Impermissibly\u2019 Favoring Democrats)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s 10th district is currently represented by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who announced he would run in New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District after the proposed map was released. The decision sets <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/sean-patrick-maloney-mondaire-jones-new-york-redistricting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nadler up for a primary<\/a> against the district\u2019s current congresswoman, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney.<\/p>\n<p>More infighting among Democrats occurred after New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney announced he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/nancy-pelosi-sean-patrict-maloney-mondaire-jones-ritchie-torres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would run<\/a> in freshman Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones\u2019 district under the new lines. At least a dozen House Democrats have considered attempting to depose Maloney from his position as Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair because of his decision, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/17\/maloney-dccc-jones-new-york-00033277?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0b34fe84-ed71-4a96-9b4b-77a80cb8363b&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio did not immediately return The Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would seek a term in Congress during an appearance Friday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201dDe Blasio said he would run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1485563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}