De Blasio May End Presidential Campaign Soon

NEW YORK — New York City may soon have a full-time CEO again. Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested Wednesday that he will end his Democratic presidential campaign if he does not qualify for next month’s debate.

The mayor said it would be “tough” to press on with his longshot White House bid if he misses the cut for the Democratic National Committee’s fourth debate, set for Oct. 15 in Ohio.

“I’m gonna go and try and get into the October debates, and if I can I think that’s a good reason to keep going forward,” de Blasio said at an unrelated news conference. “And if I can’t, I think it’s really tough to conceive of continuing.”

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The mayor missed the cut for the DNC’s third debate on Sept. 12. The 10 candidates who will take the stage in Houston got campaign contributions from at least 130,000 donors and reached 2 percent support in at least four qualifying polls.

De Blasio has until Oct. 1 to meet those criteria and qualify for the next face-off. As of last week he had not hit 2 percent in any qualifying polls, and he said two weeks ago that he was “not halfway” to the donor threshold.

Missing the September debate led New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to leave the crowded Democratic field. But de Blasio said he’s still hoping for a viral moment to catapult his candidacy out of obscurity.

“People go from unheard of to totally famous in 72 hours in America now,” he said. “So a candidate like me who’s not that well known yet — ask me in 72 hours, right?”