They're telling us there's a chance: Why the debate nonqualifiers won't quit (yet)

[brooklynite]

NBC News

If you read what people say about de Blasio online (he says he doesn’t), you might wonder if he’s a glutton for punishment. “We're all humans. You're going to feel negativity and all of its forms,” he said.

But like a gambler convinced their luck is about to change, de Blasio and his fellow extra-long shots keep showing up because every speech is another pull of the lever, every interview another deal of the cards, and every trip to an early state another chance to catch the Moment That Changes Everything.

“An hour from now, one of those special moments could happen,” de Blasio said. “I'm not meaning that to be like believing in magic. I'm just saying, we just don't know. So the way you maximize the chance for that is to keep staying out there and saying what you believe.”

Spoiler alert: It didn’t happen.

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1. Many of them know they have no chance at all but they do it for name recognition looking forward to

Many of them know they have no chance at all but they do it for name recognition looking forward to later years.