Bill de Blasio 2020?

[Suburbia]

Would the New York City mayor be a good dark horse Democratic presidential contender if he wins reelection in 2017 and runs for president in 2020? Can he beat Donald Trump?

[Suburbia]

No.

The accidental New York City Mayor who the New York City Police turned their backs on would be a joke candidate.

Had Anthony Weiner had any decency, he would have been Mayor and de Blasio would still be living in relative obscurity.

Weiner, Quinn, or Thompson would have won the nomination and the mayoralty.

[Suburbia]

DeBlasio is kind of a joke in New York, right?

He could win South Carolina, especially with black voters.

[Suburbia]

Tell him to worry about 2017 first! He'll probably win by for lack of a strong enough opponent, but what achievements could he possibly point to? Guiliani and Bloomberg both had strong records as mayor of a city of 8 million people to run off of. De Blasio does not have anything. The progressives merely tolerate him. The conservatives loathe him.

Given his clear propensity for "progressive" self-marketing at a global level, though, I wouldn't rule it out. But it'd a joke candidacy.

Universal pre-K. A tale of two Americas, just like how it is a tale of two New Yorks.