Split ticket: Ambitious New Yorker trying to lead the DNC and NYC

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Former New York state Assemblyman and ex-Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman Michael Blake is launching unlikely bids to become New York’s next mayor and the DNC chairman.

Blake is the next in a long line of Democrats to pursue both jobs as the party reels from the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams and the loss of both the Senate and the White House.

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