De Blasio leaves campaign trail as New York City blackout affects thousands

[DonViejo]

By CHRISTIAN VASQUEZ 07/13/2019 08:52 PM EDT

With more than 40,000 New Yorkers hit by a power outage Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio faced a national campaigner's dilemma: stay on the campaign trail or return home to deal with the emergency.

When first asked by CNN around 9 p.m — a few hours after the blackout began — whether he was planning to return to New York from Waterloo, Iowa, the Democratic presidential candidate said he was still weighing what to do.

"I’m going to get more information in the next hour or so, and we’ll adjust my schedule accordingly depending on what I hear," the mayor said.

By 10 p.m., de Blasio had made the decision to return to New York, according to his press secretary Freddi Goldstein.

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Just as he was making some real inroads in Iowa

[hlthe2b]

2. Well, one thing no candidate can take away from DeBlasio--he's the tallest

of the field. When I saw him stand up next to some of the shorter men (e.g., Buttigieg) and the women, my heavens... and quite a few of the others are quite tall too, but he's 6 foot 8!

Not that that means anything. Just an observation.