Bill de Blasio Can’t Resist Meddling in Iowa

DES MOINES—Bill de Blasio’s friends, allies, and top aides think his flirtation with running for president is ridiculous. None of them came with him here for the weekend.

The why-not-me stage of the Democratic presidential primaries keeps getting extended every time yet another politician asks the question and buys a plane ticket here, and the mayor of New York City wants in.

So talking to 40 people here in a union hall on a Sunday afternoon was worth it, even if that meant—again—annoying an actual candidate he’d spent years building a relationship with. He can’t seem to resist.

[Read: City Hall to the White House—can’t get there from here]

Four years ago, it was Hillary Clinton. He’d managed her 2000 Senate campaign and made a big show of inviting Bill Clinton to administer