Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to coast to the Democratic
nomination in September, now that he and his top aides have been
effectively cleared of criminal wrongdoing following a months-long probe
into his fundraising.
That was the early consensus among the city's political establishment
after state and federal prosecutors announced on Thursday that they would not bring criminal charges against the mayor or his aides.
"Although the city deserves far better than this, the people best
positioned to succeed in a Democratic primary are now unlikely to run,
and we should therefore expect four more years of Bill de Blasio,” said
Bradley Tusk, a former aide to Michael Bloomberg who has publicly
labored to recruit a high-profile challenger to the mayor.
The specter of indictments — and the possibility of a protracted
trial detailing the inner workings of the administration — had stoked
hope among de Blasio’s opponents that a credible Democrat might be
persuaded to take on the uphill challenge of unseating the incumbent
mayor.
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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