NYC first lady McCray says the 'timing is not exactly right' for a de Blasio presidential run
New York City first lady Chirlane McCray says her husband, Bill de Blasio, would “be a great president,” but that “the timing is not exactly right” for a 2020 presidential run.In an interview with POLITICO’s Women Rule podcast, McCray talked up de Blasio’s five-year record as the mayor of America’s largest city, and said the demands of his current job would make a White House run difficult.
Asked for comment, an aide to the mayor stated that a de Blasio presidential candidacy is at least up for discussion. “As the First Lady said, the mayor is focused on his job,” Michael Casca, the mayor’s director of communications, told POLITICO in a Feb. 25 email. “But they’re not ruling anything out at this point.”
De Blasio returned to Iowa last weekend for a visit that smacked of presidential ambition, and he acknowledged that he had “not ruled out a run for president, obviously.”Whether or not de Blasio runs, McCray said she wants the Democratic nominee to be not only “change-oriented,” but someone with “some kind of executive experience” — a requirement that most of the prominent Democratic candidates in the 2020 field do not meet.
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