De Blasio: The Election Not Just a Rejection of Trump; The Country Is Becoming More Progressive

‘I think Tuesday was the beginning of towards that approach’

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DE BLASIO: "Sure. And Northam is someone who I think understood working people lives, understood the whole state, so even if he might be more moderate than some of us, I still think he went out to people and talked to them about the direction for the state, I think that’s half the battle right there. This is what Democrats used to be very good at and should be again, a central message around people’s economic needs, showing that we could use government as a positive tool to improve their economic reality and that of their children ahead. And then going out to people in every corner. This party started receiving from whole swaths of the country and not contesting things. Huge mistake in my view. You go everywhere. You contest every inch. And when you do, some surprising things happen. People hear something they like. And things start to move. So I -- look, I don’t buy it was just a rejection of Trump at all. That kind of clean sweep, that blue wave is not just about Donald Trump. It’s also about the fact that 3 million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, the country is becoming more progressive." 

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