He's ignorant no amount of reasoning or data will work with him. The data I looked at said violent crime in Tampa Bay is significantly higher then NYC. Even if it were roughly the same, only a dumb ass would post about crime in NYC like it's not occurring where they live. He happily obliges as he did for two years denying Covid was an issue.
Ohhh gawdd. It's is like trying and and trying to get a giant turd to flush down the toilet bowl. Then you finally succeed and two months later the giant turd surfaces just to let you know that it felt the need to say goodbye. The giant turd may have a need to say goodbye. Everyone else? Not so much.
Some folks are claiming he wasn't truly committed to running, but started the campaign to raise funding to pay off debts he had. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.
Mostly true, I would think. There is a pattern here. Failed presidential run. Failed run for governor. Failed congressional run. Those runs were all big on forming legal campaigns on paper but light on campaigning. cha-ching, cha-ching. https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/7/19/23270761/de-blasio-congress-debts-nypd