{"id":198,"date":"2017-02-26T23:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/?p=198"},"modified":"2017-02-26T23:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:56:35","slug":"why-no-democratic-candidates-opposing-de-blasio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/why-no-democratic-candidates-opposing-de-blasio\/","title":{"rendered":"Why No Democratic Candidates Opposing De Blasio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times has an interesting take on why Mayor De Blasio might be running unopposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"250\" data-total-count=\"250\">Nearly eight months ago, with Mayor <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Bill De Blasio.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/d\/bill_de_blasio\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Bill de Blasio<\/a>\u2019s approval ratings anchored below 50 percent in New York City, a high-powered political consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/07\/nyregion\/de-blasio-shifts-away-from-his-re-election-message-of-one-city.html\">publicly vowed<\/a> to help fund and advise a viable campaign to defeat the mayor in the 2017 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"158\" data-total-count=\"408\">A dozen would-be mayors have since met with the consultant, Bradley Tusk, a millionaire former adviser to Mr. de Blasio\u2019s predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"26\" data-total-count=\"434\">Mr. Tusk is still looking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"238\" data-total-count=\"672\">With just over six months until the Democratic primary, no credible challenger \u2014 a person with some combination of name recognition, a political base, governmental experience and the funding to wage a knockdown campaign \u2014 has emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"159\" data-total-count=\"831\">In an era when political neophytes have captured offices as high as the White House, the lack of challengers to Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, may seem mystifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"159\" data-total-count=\"831\">Read the Full Article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/26\/nyregion\/mayor-bill-de-blasio-democratic-primary.html?_r=0\">NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times has an interesting take on why Mayor De Blasio might be running unopposed. 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