{"id":1562356,"date":"2022-07-20T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562356"},"modified":"2022-07-20T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:05:39","slug":"bill-de-blasio-drops-house-bid-decides-to-quit-politics-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-de-blasio-drops-house-bid-decides-to-quit-politics-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill de Blasio Drops House Bid, Decides to Quit Politics Instead"},"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\">22<\/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-drops-house-bid-decides-to-quit-politics-instead%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=1562356&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<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">F<\/span>ormer <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york-city\">New York City<\/a> Mayor <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-de-blasio\">Bill de Blasio<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>Admitting to having \u201cmade mistakes\u201d in the past, de Blasio acknowledged in a video posted to his Twitter account that \u201cpeople are looking for another option\u201d to represent them in Congress and said it was \u201ctime\u201d for him to \u201cleave electoral politics and focus on other ways to serve.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/new-york-city-democratic-congressional-candidate-anti-israel-bds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE BACKS ANTI-ISRAEL BDS MOVEMENT<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetEmbed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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>\n              <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>De Blasio\u2019s 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 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/workingfamilies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220712_NY_10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent poll<\/a> 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 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/new-york-city-democratic-congressional-candidate-anti-israel-bds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuh-Line Niou<\/a>, New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Rep. Mondaire Jones, and Dan Goldman, who was House Democrats\u2019 lead counsel during the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>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 <a class=\"Link\" 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\">poll<\/a> found that de Blasio\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s general election. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday that he was ending his congressional campaign after polls showed that he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562356","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}