Michael Bloomberg is trying to buck the venerable tradition of New York mayors (and former mayors) running unsuccessfully — and sometimes incompetently — for the presidency
DeWitt Clinton was the last New York mayor to get close to becoming president. Photo: Courtesy of Christie’s As he gains strength as a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Michael Bloomberg is trying to buck the venerable tradition of New York mayors running unsuccessfully — and sometimes incompetently — to become chief executive.
Subsequently four governors of New York became president, and many others ran for the presidency . Though New York mayors were often national figures of note, and occasionally the object of presidential rumors, none actually ran until John V. Lindsay in 1972.
An early polling leader for the GOP nomination in 2008, despite his occasionally heterodox views on cultural issues, Giuliani chose to ignore the “book” and skipped Iowa and New Hampshire, staking everything on a late-January primary in Florida. He finished third in the Sunshine State, and dropped out of the race the next day, becoming a cautionary tale about the value of early polls and the wisdom of defying the Great Corn Idol of Iowa.
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