Posted on 09/20/2019 9:47:27 PM PDT by conservative98
Mayor Bill de Blasio finally got the viral hit he was hoping would rescue his on-life-support presidential campaign — but it wasn’t the breakout moment he’d imagined.
“News of him dropping out has already garnered roughly 84,000 mentions in roughly four hours, surpassing his highest media moments while a candidate,” said Josh Ginsberg of the San Francisco-based media analytics firm Zignal Labs.
Earlier this month de Blasio mused that, “People go from unheard of to totally famous in 72 hours in America now, so a candidate like me who’s not that well known yet, you ask me in 72 hours, right? And something might change.”
But de Blasio didn’t even get to control the narrative about his own departure from the campaign after announcing his decision on Morning Joe Friday.
His Twitter handle, @billdeblasio, got 141,000 social engagements by users while President Trump’s tweet mocking the news — “NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!”— amassed 157,300 engagements, according to Ginsberg.
The Washington Examiner article, “Bill de Blasio draws 15-person crowd in Iowa,” was the highest trending story of the mayor’s failed campaign.
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DeBlasio’s ‘people’ should have told him at the first, that he wasn’t all that popular. Maybe they did, and he refused to believe it. “You guys are makin’ stuff up. New Yorker love me, and everybody knows it. What are you, Republicans?”
So long Wilhelm.
His Twitter handle, @billdeblasio, got 141,000 social engagements by users while President Trump’s tweet mocking the news — “NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!”— amassed 157,300 engagements, according to Ginsberg.
Screw a “viral moment”. I want him to get a “virus moment”, like Ebola and just die. The world doesn’t need any more commies like him and the sooner he’s gone, the better for humanity.
President Trump’s tweet mocking the news — “NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!”
Julia Marsh
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de blasé
Trump’s goal—make American great again.
Di Blasio’s goal—make New York stupid again.
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