NEW: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio launches presidential bid: 'Donald Trump must be stopped.'
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio officially launched his bid for the presidency on Thursday in a YouTube video, becoming the 23rd candidate to announce their run for the Democratic Party's 2020 nomination.
In the video, de Blasio highlighted income inequality and climate change, pledging to fight both should he be elected president. "Doesn’t matter if you live in a city or a rural area, a big state, a small state, doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is," de Blasio said."People in every part of this country feel stuck or even like they’re going backwards. But the rich got richer. I’m a New Yorker, I’ve known Trump’s a bully for a long time. This is not news to me or anyone else here. And I know how to take him on.
"I’m Bill de Blasio, and I’m running for president because it’s time we put working people first," he concluded his announcement video. Some of what de Blasio plans to run on is his liberal record as mayor of New York City, which includes enacting
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