DES MOINES — When Mayor Bill de Blasio visited Iowa in February, he delivered a deluge of ideas about how his party could take back the White House. “We’re not going to win by talking about Donald Trump,” Mr. de Blasio said. But in the days leading up to the announcement of his presidential candidacy on Thursday, and during a trip to Iowa on Friday, Mr. de Blasio appears to have had a change of heart. He held a raucous news conference at Trump Tower this week to attack Mr. Trump and to promote environmental legislation. Discussing his candidacy on the ABC program “Good Morning America,” Mr. de Blasio gave Mr. Trump a nickname: “Con Don.”And on Friday, he put a particular Iowa twist on his criticism while he toured an ethanol plant with former Gov.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2019 22:34 UTC