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It may be Trump's hometown, but it's Bill de Blasio's city — and will be for the next 4 years

NEW YORK - He is the anti-Trump, a self-styled progressive who is mayor of the president's hometown and a prominent voice in the Democratic resistance to the White House.

Despite misgivings by many New Yorkers who complain the mayor can be out of touch with their daily concerns, Bill de Blasio on Tuesday handily won a second term in office leading the nation's largest city, a perch from which he can remain a thorn in the side of the city's most prominent native son, President Donald Trump.

There is even talk that de Blasio, along with his fellow big-city mayor, Eric

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