On the campaign trail with Bill de Blasio, as he tries to find someone, somewhere, who wants to vote for him. freedlander reports
Bill de Blasio. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images By the time the mayor of New York City arrives at the Williams Chapel AME Church in Orangeburg, South Carolina, for the second official trip of his nascent presidential run, most of the raucous New York press corps is staying home.
De Blasio would avoid the city press corps entirely if he could. The relations between them are way past repair, with reporters in New York finding him self-righteous, smug, with an inflated sense of his own importance, and he finding them in thrall to their corporate masters, in search of political gossip and cheap jokes about groundhogs.
“I can’t speak to the commentators and the pundits and what motivates them and why they pump up one person and make fun of another,” he says, sitting down at a plastic table with his wife, Chirlane McCray, by his side after the press conference. “Look, I took over from one of the richest people on earth. We sought to govern on behalf of working people, and that is different.”
He says he doesn’t need to, that he can win this thing going from church to church and from Snapchat feed to Instagram Live video. De Blasio has crept up to one percent in the polls since he announced, pushing him slightly above the morass of anonymous white guys running. The people close to him say the mayor really believes he has a chance to win — or at least as good a chance as anyone else’s.
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