Bill de Blasio: if Clinton had had a message of economic change, would overwhelmed Trump

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Bill de Blasio Says Bernie Sanders’s ‘Message’ Would Have Won
Eric Levitz
New York Magazine

But then, one can also point to the decision to campaign in Arizona but not in Wisconsin, or to direct the campaign’s ground game not to waste any time on trying to persuade unfriendly voters, or to prosecute the case against Donald Trump primarily on grounds of fitness and moral values, rather than on the regressiveness of his economic agenda.

“I say it with tremendous respect for her, and again, she won 2.6 million more votes than Donald Trump so it’s kind of hard to ignore that fact,” de Blasio said. “But I believe if she had had a message of economic change, it would have overwhelmed a lot of what Trump was putting forward, I think it would have helped her to keep some of those states.”

De Blasio endorsed Clinton during the primary, but not before making a big show of withholding that endorsement on the grounds that he needed to hear more about “her larger vision [for] addressing income inequality.”