New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the twice-elected chief executive of the nation’s largest city, announced Thursday that he is joining the Democratic field of presidential candidates, pledging in a campaign video that he would “put working people first.”“There’s plenty of money in this world. It’s just in the wrong hands,” de Blasio says at the outset of the video, in which he recounts his liberal agenda as mayor and pledges to stand up to President Trump. In his video, de Blasio touts his efforts to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15, mandate sick leave, expand access to health care and provide free prekindergarten classes. He supports legalizing the sale of marijuana in New York City in a way that would position nonwhite communities, including those with past marijuana convictions, to benefit from the new legal industry. “Here’s a message for President Trump: Don’t mess with your hometown,” de Blasio said.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2019 00:13 UTC