New Yorkers weren’t the only ones unimpressed by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s washout of a White House bid.
In a new interview, his own wife suggested she didn’t think he had a chance.
“I was not fully enthusiastic about it,” New York’s first lady Chirlane McCray told Washington LGBT website Blade on Thursday when asked why de Blasio’s presidential dreams failed.
She said establishing a “thoughtful strategic campaign” took time and suggested: “He didn’t really have that time.”
“But I’m really happy to have had the experience to travel the country and to hear what people are going through,” she hastily added, according to the report. “There’s really, there’s just nothing like it.”
De Blasio pulled the plug on his sputtering White House bid in September after failing to gain more than 1 percent in national polls.
Still McCray rationalized, “The fact that he got as far as he did is pretty remarkable and shows the quality of — shows his strengths. To be able to get onto the national stage so quickly and do so well on, you know, all things considered,” she continued.
“And I think that, you know, if he hadn’t had another full-time job, he would have been able to focus all of his energy and time on it.”
His long-shot, four-month campaign angered New Yorkers after he got stuck in Waterloo, Iowa, during July’s Big Apple blackout — leaving Gov. Andrew Cuomo to mop up the mess as de Blasio campaigned to crowds of just 15 people.
The Post also revealed how Hizzoner spent just seven hours of scheduled meetings and calls at City Hall during the first month of his campaign and dropped over $60,000 in taxpayer money for his roaming NYPD security detail — before he even announced his bid in May.
He was the 24th Democratic candidate to put his hat in the ring.
McCray speculated that her husband, 58, would have had a much better shot if he hasn’t already signed up for the job of being mayor of the greatest city on Earth.




