Michael Bloomberg had not lost an election since November 2003, when New York City voters resoundingly rejected a referendum he spent millions of dollars promoting to make elections here nonpartisan affairs, with no listing of party affiliation.
The following morning, he was addressing reporters at a firehouse on Liberty St. when WNBC-TV’s Gabe Pressman asked him, “Why do you think you lost?” The then-Mayor replied, “I didn’t lose at all Gabe,” even as his face grew increasingly flushed and the rising intensity of his voice told a different story.
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