Why Bill de Blasio’s Campaign Failed (Hint: Nobody Liked Him)
There is officially only one mayor1 left in the 2020 presidential race — and it is the one who runs a city of 100,000 rather than the chief executive of the biggest city in the United States. On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination — leaving us now with 18 major candidates remaining, per FiveThirtyEight’s definition.
However, the list of candidates with realistic shots at winning the nomination may be even shorter than that; just 10 candidates met the polling...