The New York Post reports:
Mayor de Blasio — not Hillary Rodham Clinton — will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2016.Can Bill de Blasio conquer the Democrat party?
That’s the jaw-dropping prediction being made by New York’s top Republican, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who, as son-in-law to former President Richard Nixon, knows a thing or two about national politics.
Cox, citing information provided by a prominent “Democratic lobbyist,’’ told friends and associates in recent days that freshman Mayor de Blasio’s effort to promote himself as the leader of the “urban progressive centers of the nation’’ is part of a well-oiled plan to prepare for a presidential run.
“It’s like Barack Obama; he was a brand-new freshman senator, and he ran for president and won. I think de Blasio is going to do it,’’ Cox said at a recent gathering, a source told The Post.
