A 17-year-old politics junkie scoops Bill de Blasio on news of his own presidential launch
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had it all planned out - a stunt inside Trump Tower on Monday, an announcement on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday and, from there, outings in Iowa and South Carolina to begin making his case that he should be elected president.
But a high school junior in St. Louis had other plans, which were set into motion on Wednesday.
Gabe Fleisher, the 17-year-old whose "Wake Up To Politics" newsletter reaches 50,000 people each weekday, was scrolling through a politics blog after school - "I did my homework, too," he maintained - when a small item caught his eye. He paused. It was an announcement from a local wing of the Democratic Party in Sioux City, Iowa, inviting members to see de Blasio on Friday at the mayor's "first stop on his Presidential announcement tour."