Mayor Bloomberg had some very nice things to say about City Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday on his radio show, but declined to offer an official endorsement of her for mayor just yet.
On Thursday the mayor said he won't be issuing an endorsement until the general election in the autumn.
All of this makes sense.
An endorsement of Quinn now while the Democratic primary is still going on would do little to help her and lots to hurt her.
We'll see where she is come autumn.
Giver her downward poll trajectory, the animosity and hostility she is engendering on the campaign trail, Weiner's potential entrance into the race and Liu's potential exit from the race post-campaign finance fraud trial, it's possible that she may not be standing come autumn as support solidifies around other candidates.
She's the "frontrunner" for now, be she's a paper tiger frontrunner and I think there are two or three scenarios where there is a Democratic runoff in September and Quinn is not a part of that.
Sure you can make a case for a Quinn/Weiner or Quinn/Thompson runoff in September.
But you can also make cases for Weiner/Thompson or Thompson/de Blasio too.
We'll see where her poll numbers are in the next round of polls.
De Blasio has been hitting her very hard lately and she's started to skip more and more mayoral forums.
And of course she still doesn't give out her schedule for fear her personal contingent of protesters will greet her at events.
These are all signs that she has a hard road ahead.
Saturday 4 May 2013
Bloomberg Praises Quinn, But Won't Endorse A Candidate Until Autumn
Posted on 04:52 by Ashish Chaturvedi
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