{"id":12159,"date":"2019-09-20T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2019-09-20T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:36:47","slug":"did-you-feel-the-disturbance-in-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12159","title":{"rendered":"Did You Feel The Disturbance In the Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5605,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\\\/news\\\/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race?utm_source=breaking_push&amp;utm_medium=app&amp;utm_campaign=push_notifications&amp;utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_09\\\/20\\\/2019&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&amp;rid=12502&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5606,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/poll-de-blasio-dead-last-in-new-yorkers-pick-for-president&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260207100133\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thedailybeast.com\\\/poll-de-blasio-dead-last-in-new-yorkers-pick-for-president\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 09:00:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 09:56:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 15:44:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 15:44:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-147431441-1\"><\/script>\n<script>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n  gtag('js', new Date());\n\n  gtag('config', 'UA-147431441-1');\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>NY City Mayor Bill de Blasio has dropped out the 2020 Presidential race. I&#8217;m sorry but I didn&#8217;t feel a disturbance in the force. There was no ripple in the pond and no moving of the Earth. Maybe it was because this seemed to me to be purely a vanity thing for de Blasio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race?utm_source=breaking_push&amp;utm_medium=app&amp;utm_campaign=push_notifications&amp;utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_09\/20\/2019&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&amp;rid=12502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has ended his long-shot bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.<br><br>\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve contributed all I can to this primary election, and it&#8217;s clearly not my time so I&#8217;m going to end my presidential campaign,\u201d de Blasio told\u00a0<em>Morning Joe\u00a0<\/em>on Friday.<\/p><p><br>De Blasio, who did not appear in the third debate earlier this month, said he could not see a path forward for his campaign because he could not meet the polling and donation thresholds to make the debate stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/poll-de-blasio-dead-last-in-new-yorkers-pick-for-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Quinnipiac poll of New York City residents<\/a> earlier this year put him dead last when asked which New York politician would make the best president. The list included Michael Bloomberg, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and even AOC who is not eligible to be President.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY City Mayor Bill de Blasio has dropped out the 2020 Presidential race. 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