Despite near-universal consensus that he should not run for president, Bill de Blasio is still flirting with the idea. After reports emerged that pollsters were calling Iowa voters to gauge their opinion on de Blasio, hizzoner admitted that his political action committee had paid for polling in the early-primary state. “I want to look at a lot of information,” de Blasio told reporters during a press briefing on Thursday. “The ultimate decision, as I said, is a personal one and a family one, but of course it makes sense to look at other information.”

It’s unclear exactly what the potential Johnny-come-lately candidate expects to find in Iowa, given that every poll out of the state has him at 0 percent (or not even listed), while high-profile progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren already occupy his hypothetical lane. Moreover, it’s unclear where de Blasio is getting the idea he should enter the crowded race in the first place, considering absolutely no one seems to want him there. Of nearly three-dozen allies and advisers surveyed by Politico in March, only two said he should run, while the rest considered the idea to be, as one adviser put it, “fucking insane.” A Monmouth poll found that, of every single Democratic candidate, both declared and undeclared, de Blasio was the only one with a net negative favorability rating.

But wait, there’s more: an April Quinnipiac poll found that 76 percent of New Yorkers—including a majority across “every listed party, gender, racial, borough, and age group”—thought de Blasio should not run. His own wife, Chirlane McCray, said in March that he should focus on running New York City (where he has a lackluster 42-percent approval rating) instead. Even his pollsters on the ground cannot help but undermine him. According to Iowan Democratic activist John Deeth, who was on the receiving end of one call, they couldn’t get his name right. (”I think he [called him] ‘Didliaso’ or something like that,” Deeth told NY1.)

Evidently blind to these glaring red flags, de Blasio on Thursday promised to announce his decision “in the month of May.” A hard deadline should come as a relief to New Yorkers, who just want someone to fix the subway and pick up the goddamn garbage, please.

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