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 more than 40 percentage points 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 ago 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.