{"id":1561806,"date":"2022-07-19T18:27:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561806"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:34:23","slug":"former-new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-gives-up-on-congressional-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-gives-up-on-congressional-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New York Mayor Bill De Blasio Gives Up On Congressional Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fformer-new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-gives-up-on-congressional-ambitions%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=1561806&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1234436421-scaled-e1658269876518.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Former Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that he decided to drop out of the race to represent New York congressional district 10.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/20\/bill-deblasio-congress-new-york-city-mayor\/\">mayor<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/05\/bill-de-blasio-joe-biden-approval-2022-midterms\/629740\/\">told<\/a> the Atlantic that he\u2019s \u201csomewhat of an expert\u201d at being unpopular, made the decision after just five days after finishing second-to-last in a City &#038; State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/rivera-niou-goldman-form-top-tier-new-10th-congressional-district-poll\/374225\/\">poll<\/a> featuring nine other Democrats running in the district. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/11\/three-people-shot-birthday-party-long-island\/\"><strong>(RELATED: 3 People Shot At \u2018Celebrity Pool Party\u2019 In Swanky Long Island Hotel Mansion)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The poll showed de Blasio only held 5% of the electorate, 12 points behind current frontrunner Carlina Rivera, who holds 17%, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">It\u2019s clear the people of [New York\u2019s 10th district]<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0are looking for another option and I respect that,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BilldeBlasio\/status\/1549443376189263873\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cTime for me to leave electoral politics and focus on other ways to serve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s clear the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NY10?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NY10<\/a> 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! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gpt6V6WLUf\">pic.twitter.com\/gpt6V6WLUf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BilldeBlasio\/status\/1549443376189263873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The seat de Blasio is giving up on is currently held by Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who decided if New York\u2019s proposed redistricted map were approved, he would run for congressional district 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/politics\/former-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-drops-out-of-congressional-district-race\/3781077\/\">NBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time de Blasio dropped out of an election on account of performing poorly in the polls. The former mayor had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/18\/bill-de-blasio-not-running-new-york-governor\/\">dropped<\/a> out of the New York gubernatorial race after polling showed him tailing current Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul by 34%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district he was running for included part of Manhattan and segment of western Brooklyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561806","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\/1561806","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\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}