The bad news keeps coming for Bill de Blasio

Bill de Blasio.
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Despite his high-profile job, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is still struggling to gain traction in the crowded Democratic presidential primary field.

In a recent Iowa caucus poll produced by CNN, the Des Moines Register, and Mediacom, de Blasio was one of two candidates — the other being Miramar, Florida Mayor Wayne Messam — to not be the first or second choice for president among a single one of the poll's respondents.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.