{"id":69122,"date":"2017-03-19T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69122"},"modified":"2017-03-19T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T19:08:52","slug":"report-hillary-clinton-is-thinking-about-running-for-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69122","title":{"rendered":"Report: Hillary Clinton is \u2018Thinking\u2019 about Running for NYC Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_69123\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hillary-Bill-Clinton-Broadway-Musical-Feb-1-2017-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69123\" class=\"wp-image-69123 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hillary-Bill-Clinton-Broadway-Musical-Feb-1-2017-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hillary-Bill-Clinton-Broadway-Musical-Feb-1-2017-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hillary-Bill-Clinton-Broadway-Musical-Feb-1-2017-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Allen\/Invision\/AP<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <a class=\"byauthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/monasalama\/\">MONA SALAMA<br \/>\n<\/a>Breitbart.com<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is considering running for New York City mayor, according to a <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2017\/03\/15\/hillary-clinton-run-new-york-city-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by TMZ.<\/h2>\n<p>TMZ reports that a source who was at a small gathering last month with Clinton and \u201csome politically connected people\u201d from New York said the former presidential candidate \u201chas not ruled\u201d out the possibility and is \u201ctaking a real look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also told the close circle to measure \u201cthe level of interest and support\u201d to a potential Clinton candidacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cHillary says the people in the room were supportive of a run, and she said she was talking to people in her close circle to gauge the level of interest and support in a Clinton candidacy,\u201d the source told TMZ. \u201cJudging from the meeting, so far it\u2019s just talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of Clinton running for mayor to resurrect her political career after a humiliating defeat in November have been swirling around in New York political circles since the beginning of the year. But, despite the growing speculation, Clinton has not yet publicly commented whether she would mull a challenge against the incumbent, Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">However, a top Clinton aide, Neera Tanden, shot down reports of chatter\u00a0circulating in New York political\u00a0circles in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cI don\u2019t expect her to run for this and I don\u2019t expect her to run for other office,\u201d Tanden told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on\u00a0\u201cState of the Union\u201d show. \u201cI think her job is to \u2014 what she\u2019s thinking about right now is how to help those kids and families as she has her whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As\u00a0\u201c\u00a0Hillary for Mayor\u201d signs began appearing around the big apple, the latest Rasmussen poll released last week found that 58 percent of likely voters\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/03\/07\/poll-new-yorkers-finds-not-want-hillary-run-mayor\/\">don\u2019t want Clinton to run<\/a> for mayor of New York,\u00a0compared to just 23 percent who want her to run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/03\/15\/report-hillary-clinton-thinking-running-nyc-mayor\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/03\/15\/report-hillary-clinton-thinking-running-nyc-mayor\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}