Bill de Blasio endorses Bernie Sanders

Yay! Yawn...

"I am standing with Bernie because he stands with working families, and always has," de Blasio said in a statement on Friday night. "New Yorkers know all too well the damage caused by Donald Trump's xenophobia, bigotry and recklessness, and Bernie is the candidate to take him on and take him down. I have called for a bold, progressive agenda, and that's exactly what Senator Sanders has championed for decades. I am proud to endorse a true progressive leader who will fight for working New Yorkers and families across the country."

De Blasio has also been a fierce critic of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a late and big-spending entrant into the primary, over his record on economic inequality in the city and the use of stop and frisk, the police tactic that Bloomberg defended during his three terms in office but more recently has apologized for.

De Blasio had made calls for overhauling the practice a centerpiece of his first mayoral campaign, in 2013. When Bloomberg apologized for his embrace of stop and frisk last year, de Blasio dismissed it as "a death bed conversion."