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“A horse is only as good as it runs and I know how to be human and he knows how to be a giraffe, i.e. the only thing that he’s done really well in his life is being an elected official or involved in politics.”
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her extremism will be rejected at the ballot box.” Smikle still believes that the seat will be a conservativeleaning one regardless. “It’s still a lot more conservative than Bill de Blasio,” Smikle said when discussing the former mayor’s political ideology. “It’s gonna be hard for a lot of that progressive rhetoric to resonate in that congressional seat.” So why is de Blasio looking to run for Congress? “For the same reason that I am not a giraffe,” said political strategist Hank Sheinkopf. “A horse is only as good as it runs and I know how to be human and he knows how to be a gi-
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raffe, i.e. the only thing that Rose made waves in a 15he’s done really well in his life second campaign ad in 2020 is being an elected official or in- calling de Blasio the worst volved in politics.” mayor in the history of New
York City. Smikle told the AmNews that he thinks de Blasio wants to hurt Rose’s chances of getting back to
Washington, but it could clear the lane for Malliotakis. “His entrance into the race definitely hurts,” Smikle said. “It hurts Democrats’ chances of taking back the seat by, you know, splitting the vote. And even though I think Max Rose is a great candidate, standing up for Black Lives Matter in many ways cost him his seat.” De Blasio not taking a step back from the public eye before eyeing a political run of any kind is a bad idea in Sheinkopf’s eyes. But he believes that the mayor is addicted to campaigning. “He’s won upset elections [and] keeps winning upset elections,” Sheinkopf said. “And therefore, that makes him an expert at really doing one thing. He does not have much skill at much else. That’s the problem.”
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