New York City Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio brushed off criticism for being out-of-state when a major power outage hit the city on July 13; he was campaigning in Iowa at the time.
De Blasio told CNN’s “State of the Union“ on July 14 that traveling is part of the job of being a mayor, and that his responsibility as mayor is to make sure everything is ”quickly handled” and that he communicated with those in the city to ensure that.
