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DES MOINES, Iowa — There’s not even a kernel of hope for Mayor Bill de Blasio in this decidedly unscientific Iowa State Fair poll. Even after his food- and game-filled Sunday at the fair — where he gave a 20-minute pitch to voters at the famed Political Soapbox — the New York City mayor is registering at 0 percent in the fair’s corn kernel poll. Attendees at the fair over the age of 18 can place a kernel of corn into a jar to select their top caucus choice. Around 6 p.m. Sunday, after the mayor’s tour around the fairgrounds...

A campaigning Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a boycott of Walmart Saturday in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in El Paso — and also took aim at President Trump and his “tiny little hands.” “I’ve got a little message for President Trump,” he said to polite applause at an Iowa gun-control forum Saturday. “Mr. President, it’s not Hollywood. It’s not video games … It’s the guns that are the problem.” “Take those tiny little hands of yours, pick up the phone, call Mitch McConnell, and say the Senate has to vote for gun safety measures right now,”...

Have I missed it, or has anyone reacted to the Hannity/DeBlasio interview?

Corey Roper was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for sex trafficking of minor females. Roper previously pled guilty to one count of sex trafficking minor victims. As part of his plea, Roper acknowledged that he trafficked three minor females, and also trafficked another female by force. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman stated: “Self-proclaimed pimp, Corey Roper, perpetrated awful acts against young women. Roper subjected his victims – some as young as 13 years old – to what he called ‘pimp rules,’ and punished them through cruel physical violence and depriving them of food and sleep if they...

Don’t get duped by moderate Democrats — their message is a loser. That was the warning Bill de Blasio made to union workers Saturday in Las Vegas, where he urged his party to go hard to the left if it hopes to defeat Donald Trump. “Do we need to nominate a moderate to win in 2020? You hear it everywhere,” said hizzoner at a forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “No, it is a trap, because when you listen to the moderates — I don’t disrespect them, I want to work with them —...

2020 candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was guest on Friday’s The View where he received ample praise from the liberal co-hosts but was called out by hosts Meghan McCain and Ana Navarro. Co-host Sunny Hostin admitted that she didn’t understand why de Blasio’s approval ratings were low in New York, considering all of his “terrific accomplishments.” She gushed that his policies should be copied everywhere across the country: Mayor of New York City, you created universal pre-k, you expanded paid sick leave, and reduced stop and frisk policing, thank you. You oversaw the city's 15 minimum...

Greer said there was one clear loser in tonight’s debate: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s quixotic quest to go from Gracie Mansion to the White House. “De Blasio was the loser tonight,” she added. “Not even the [Eric] Garner question was directed at him.” [cut] WINNERS Julián Castro Analysis: Presented a strong case for attendance in the next debate with measured and thoughtful answers to complex issues — including on Eric Garner and President Trump’s racist tweets. He started to lay a foundation as to why he deserves to be in the conversation. It could be enough to...

"The View" host Meghan McCain lashed out at New York City mayor Bill De Blasio amid his opening statement during the second round of Democratic presidential debates. "Uncle Joe came to play! Everyone hates you DeBlasio. You left us in the cold in the blackout," she tweeted. She appeared to be referring to De Blasio's decision to stay in Iowa while the city faced a widespread blackout.

Dante de Blasio is the son of Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has abandoned his crime-wracked city (but not his public office, tax-subsidized salary or perks) for a quixotic presidential bid to become America's social justice warrior-in-chief. Calculated to promote his race card-playing dad's campaign, Dante stoked anti-cop hysteria a few weeks ago with a widely disseminated USA Today op-ed. Dante's screed came just days after de Blasio declared at the first Democratic debate: "I'm different from all of the other candidates in this race in that I'm raising a black son in America."

Stunning videos posted online Monday show uniformed NYPD cops getting drenched with buckets of water by brazen young men in Harlem and Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told The Post. One clip even shows a soaked cop getting beaned in the back of the head with an empty, red plastic bucket while the cop and his partner were handcuffing a suspect on the hood of a black car. “Everybody’s outraged,” an NYPD source said.

Widespread electricity outages could become the new normal in Venezuela, experts have warned, as the country struggled to restore power after a massive blackout that left millions without power or access to the internet. Blackouts plunge Venezuela into chaos as minister blames saboteurs Energy minister Freddy Brito said on Tuesday morning that power had been restored in Caracas and at least five states after the outage which the government blamed on an “electromagnetic attack” at hydroelectric dams in the south of the country. Around 80% of Venezuela’s grid is served by hydropower. But energy analysts were deeply suspicious of government...

Videos of New York Police Department officers being doused with water and pelted with objects in separate incidents surfaced on social media on Monday, including one clip that showed officers getting drenched as they were making an arrest. NYPD officials called the videos “reprehensible.” In one video, somebody hurled a bucket that hit an officer in the head while he was making an arrest in Harlem. Groups of jeering bystanders could be heard reacting as people continued to splash the officers with water. “The videos of cops being doused with water and having objects hurled at them as they made...

Bad enough that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign has raised less cash total than South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg has raised in New York City. Far worse is where Blas is getting his dough. Specifically: As FiveThirtyEight notes, more than 90% of the $1.1 million that Mr. Progressive raised through June 30 came from “big donors” (those giving more than $200) — by far the largest proportion of any 2020 candidate. And most of the cash has come from unions and businesses eager to buy (or repay) City Hall’s favor. That includes a maxed-out $2,800 gift from Brooklyn...

Today's eerie early morning calm is bound to turn into an all-out melée as immigration activists take to the streets, knowing that any violence that results can always be blamed on the Trump administration ICE deportation raids to arrest as many as 2000 illegal immigrants sheltering in the U.S. are set set to begin today in an environment where some lawmakers are now potential lawbreakers. “A recent report from National Review quoted Nancy Pelosi giving advice to illegal immigrants on how to avoid arrest and deportation.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” 2020 presidential hopeful, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said President Donald Trump’s tweet asking why progressive lawmakers to “go back and fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” was intended to divide people. De Blasio said, “Unfortunately there is an American tradition of telling people to go back where they came from. It’s a very bad tradition that we need to weed out of our nation because we are a nation of migrants, that is who we are by our nature for hundreds of years. But you...

The New York Police Department said its hate crimes task force had launched an investigation after posters of soccer star Megan Rapinoe were vandalized with misogynistic comments and homophobic slurs at a Manhattan subway station. According to USA Today, the defaced posters, which were located around the Bryant Park subway stop, were reported to authorities on Monday morning — two days before the U.S. women’s national soccer team celebrated its World Cup victory at a ticker-tape parade in the city. “Hate has no place in the transit system and we work hard to make the subway a welcoming, safe environment...

What do you do if you’re running for President but nobody in your party seems to like you, leaving you at basically zero percent in the polls? That’s the problem facing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio this month, but he’s clearly struck on a solution. Nearly all of his competitors are singing the praises of Medicare for All while also pandering to the LGBTQ community as hard as possible. Hizzoner decided this week to one-up them combining the two into a single, furthest left package. Let’s make sure that Medicare for All covers transgender surgery! (Free Beacon) New York...

The Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) attacked New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Twitter on Thursday, saying the 2020 candidate is "full of sh--" after he tweeted his condolences over the death of an officer on Long Island, and calling him out for comments made during Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate. An off-duty Bronx police officer committed suicide in his home Thursday, the fourth to do so this month. De Blasio had this to say via Twitter following the news: "We're devastated by the news out of the NYPD this morning. An officer took his own life -- one...

Mayor de Blasio got a scathing rejection from liberal comedian Bill Maher. Hizzoner needs to “get the f—k out” of the 2020 presidential race, Maher said on his HBO show Friday — breaking into song to shoo him out. “And this guy,” Maher condescendingly said, hoisting a photo of de Blasio. “Start spreading the news,” he crooned, “you’re leaving today” — an acerbic take on the Frank Sinatra classic, “New York, New York.” “Look, there’s too many people in this race, right?” Maher said. “I’m going to get rid of ten of them right now.” He ordered Colorado Gov. John...

The eyes of the world are on this airport, the eyes of the world are on Miami-Dade,” de Blasio told the workers, before ending with, “Hasta la victoria, siempre.” The phrase translates to “Ever on to victory!” and was a mantra for Guevara, one of Fidel Castro’s top lieutenants. That did not sit well in Miami, a hub for anti-Castro Cuban exiles. Local politicians, including Florida state Sen. Jose Javier Rodríguez, called on Hizzoner to apologize. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also ripped de Blasio for the bone headed choice of phrase. “I did not know the phrase I used in...