New York Intendant Bill De Blasio was added to the presidential race: "It's Necessary to Stop at Donald Trump"

The polls are unfavorable. Even New Yorkers do not support it. But nothing stops it. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his appointment Thursday candidacy for the presidential election the United States by 2020, becoming the twenty-third democrat who aspires to succeed Donald Trump.

"You have to stop Donald Trump. I am Bill de Blasio and I run as a presidential candidate because it is time for us to give priority to the workers, "said the mayor in a video posted on YouTube.

De Blasio, 58, mentioned in the three-minute report the policies he implemented in the US economic capital to: promote "working families" since the beginning of his term in January 2014.

In the video, his wife, Chirlene McCray, very involved in her husband's local management through mental health initiatives, intervenes and ensures that citizens "thank" De Blasio for his policy, which "does the difference the lives of families "

Elected with the promise of reduce inequalities After 12 years of managing billionaire Michael Bloomberg, De Blasio is one of the presidential candidates with more postures leftlike those of Bernie Sanders.

"There is a lot of money in the world, there are many in this country, it is in the wrong hands," he said in the video, a phrase that he repeated several times in New York.

"As president, I will face the rich and big businessI will not rest until this government serves the workers. As mayor of the largest city in the United States, I did it. Donald Trump must be arrested, I have already beaten him and I will do it again, "concluded Blasio.

A progressive mayor

The politician, who is nearly two meters tall, promoted the progressive ideas as mayor: he approved the free access to health for all New Yorkers – including undocumented immigrants – and the free pre-school education, as well as a minimum wage of 15 dollars l & # 39; hour.

It has also encouraged the decriminalization of small marijuana-related crimes and calls on all New Yorkers to benefit from at least two weeks of mandatory paid leave (500,000 workers do not receive any paid leave).

Since Donald Trump, his nemesis, has come to the White House, de Blasio has tried protect undocumented migrants in New York, and raised the flag of the fight against global warming through the adoption of a set of innovative measures.

Among them, the big fines at Trump's eight buildings that do not comply with municipal environmental rules, as denounced Blasio at a rally held this week at Trump Tower.

The protest earned him a shock on Twitter with Eric Trump, the president's son, who accused him of "abuse of power".

De Blasio replied that he and his father "spent decades evade taxes and oppress workers"But Eric Trump counter-attacked." Our city went to hell under your direction, "he told him.

De Blasio has failed to advance his main election promise. Under his mandate, they were registered record number of New Yorkers living on the street or in shelters, currently some 63,000 people.

"Many times, I went for the last time in the polls," he said in late January, perhaps remembering his overwhelming victory in 2013 when he was virtually unknown. "No matter how you start the race, what matters is how you finish it," he said.

It should be measured with more than 20 opponents, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Ohio representative Tim Ryan, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, former Texas Representative, Beto O & # 39; Rourke, Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, as well as the young mayor of Indiana Pete Buttigieg, who is seeking to become the country's first openly homobadual presidential candidate.