Bill de Blasio Endorses Hillary Clinton, to Little Fanfare From Campaign

This kind of snuck in on Friday, I haven't seen it posted here, although I did see the story about 85 mayors endorsing Clinton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-finally-endorses-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0

Bill de Blasio Endorses Hillary Clinton, to Little Fanfare From Campaign

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMOCT. 30, 2015

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s slow, awkward march toward endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton — the woman who jump-started his political career — reached its widely predicted conclusion on Friday, as the mayor extended his presidential blessing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“The candidate who I believe can fundamentally address income inequality effectively, the candidate who has the right vision, the right experience and the ability to get the job done, is Hillary Clinton,” Mr. de Blasio said.

Mrs. Clinton, a fellow Democrat, did not appear on the program. Nor did she issue a statement about Mr. de Blasio. Instead, the Clinton campaign emailed a note to reporters calling the New York City mayor’s support “a sign of the campaign’s continued momentum.”

The note added, “The Clinton campaign will also announce that an additional 85 mayors from across the country will endorse her today.”

The circumstances of Mr. de Blasio’s endorsement offered a sign of the reduced interest in his presidential preferences since he initially denied Mrs. Clinton his blessing in April. When the Clinton campaign issued an official announcement about its latest wave of endorsements, Mr. de Blasio’s was given fourth billing, after the mayors of Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia.

By this week, Mr. de Blasio’s six-month delay in issuing an endorsement was viewed in political circles as quixotic at best. Virtually all leading Democrats in New York have already thrown their support behind Mrs. Clinton, along with leading liberal Democrats like Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

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