De Blasio (mis)plays the Dante card

It was inevitable that Mayor Bill de Blasio would play the Dante card in his White House bid, but the clumsy way he’s done it helps explain why his 2020 hopes are so … hopeless.

To be fair, the mayor got a slight bump in the polls after the first debate, where he bragged of being the only candidate who’s been “raising a black son.” And, since he no longer much cares about leading the city he’s supposed to govern, it didn’t matter that, by repeating his talk about having “the talk” with young Dante, he once again all but called city cops a bunch of racists.

De Blasio’s campaign then tried to hit the point harder, by placing a Dante op-ed in USA Today — a piece defending his dad’s comments about teaching his son to avoid confrontations with the police.

But then the mayor himself revealed offhandedly at a stop in Chicago that Dante had written the piece years ago. Which makes its publication now just another political gimmick.

Just like the mayor’s hokey tweets around the debate, sharing his debate-prep texts with his “champion debater” son.

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It’s widely agreed that a television ad featuring then-15-year-old Dante was crucial to de Blasio winning the Democratic primary for mayor back in 2013. Yet it’s beyond telling that he’s already relying on the same gimmick — rather than his record in office — to get him out of the 1 percent doldrums in the 2020 campaign.

It’s not helping: De Blasio’s still far behind the mayor of tiny South Bend, Ind. — and still oversleeping TV interviews. Maybe he should ask what alarm clock Pete Buttigieg uses.