President Obama — who endorsed Bill de Blasio for mayor on Monday and is in town for the UN session — has set 🃏time aside to meet face-to-face with the Democratic candidate Tuesday night, The Post has learned.
The meeting comes as de Blasio leads Republican rival Joe Lhota by mor♉e than 40 percentage po🍨ints in public polls.
Earlier Tuesday, de Blasio defended his support of the Nicaraguan 🌌Sandinistas by comparing himself to FDR.
“I’m a progressive and I’m a Democrat and I’m very much in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt,” de Blasio said on WPIX TV, explaining why he traveled to Nicaragua more than two decades ag൩o to support a government the U.S. was trying to topple.
﷽“I think U.S. policies at the time were wrong. I was very proud to be involved with that work,” he added.