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De
Blasio, a liberal who dropped out of the Democratic contest in
September, will travel with Sanders on Sunday and Monday to
Nevada, which holds its caucuses on Feb. 22, a campaign
announcement said.
The endorsement comes after Sanders, who was born in New York
but represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate, came out of the first
nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire as a front-runner
among the Democrats vying to challenge Republican President
Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 election.
"New Yorkers know all too well the damage caused by Donald
Trump’s xenophobia, bigotry and recklessness, and Bernie is the
candidate to take him on and take him down," the announcement
quoted de Blasio as saying. "I have called for a bold,
progressive agenda, and that’s exactly what Senator Sanders has
championed for decades."
Before exiting his campaign, de Blasio emphasized his
accomplishments as mayor, including the end of the policing
practice known as stop-and-frisk, which ensnared
disproportionate numbers of blacks and Latinos.
The strategy was supported by his predecessor as mayor, Michael
Bloomberg, who apologized for it a few days before announcing
his own candidacy for the 2020 Democratic race.
Sanders has criticized Bloomberg, who is outspending all the
other candidates in his self-funded campaign, as trying to buy
the election.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Simon Lewis; Editing by Chris
Reese and Sonya Hepinstall)
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