“The irony is that the South Bend mayor is being taken seriously and the New York mayor’s not,” said one Democratic strategist
And it isn’t just de Blasio. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who considered running for president before demurring earlier this year, has been asked more than once whether Buttigieg’s success has made him reconsider his choices.Sign Up
Perhaps it could have been Garcetti. Or former mayors Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans or Michael Bloomberg of New York or any number of big-city mayors or former mayors sitting 2020 out. The Democratic primary once appeared likely to present an opening for a politician who could lean on a record of executive experience in a big, heavily Democratic city.
Still, she said, "I think when mayors, when other elected officials look at his actual qualifications, it’s easy to see how they could look in the mirror and say, 'Why not me?'” “It’s definitely a season for cities,” Buttigieg said last year. “And it’s definitely a season for mayors.”
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