page_title: Rocky De La Fuente
section_title: 2017 mayoral
hierarchical_section_title: Rocky De La Fuente / Political campaigns / 2017 mayoral
caption_attribution_description: English: Rocky De La Fuente mayoral campaign, 2017
context_page_description: Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra is an American businessman and politician.
  A perennial candidate, De La Fuente was the presidential nominee of both the Reform Party and his self-created American Delta Party in the 2016 election. That year, he was also an unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic primary for United States senator from Florida and for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  During the 2018 elections, De La Fuente was on the ballot in nine states' primaries for United States Senate, all of which he lost. He campaigned as a critic of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
  In the 2020 United States presidential election, he ran unsuccessfully for the nomination of the Republican Party, but secured the nominations of the Reform Party and the Alliance Party. Also in 2020, he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for California's 21st congressional district, but lost in the March 2020 primary.
context_section_description: De La Fuente sought the Republican nomination for Mayor of New York City in the 2017 election. He joined the race claiming that private polling data showed him defeating the two Republican candidates who were then entered, Paul Massey and Michel Faulkner.
  De La Fuente's candidacy ran into problems with his lack of residency. City law requires candidates to be residents of the city prior to the election. De La Fuente's campaign said that he had attempted to purchase an apartment, that the building's management refused to interview him because he was Hispanic, and that they might make a federal court case out of this matter.
  On March 28, De La Fuente debated mayoral contenders Kevin Coenen, Mike Tolkin, independent Bo Dietl, Democratic challenger Sal Albanese and Republican Faulkner in an event hosted by the Reform Party of New York State (which is not affiliated with the Reform Party of the United States of America).
  After both Faulkner and Massey suspended their campaigns, only De La Fuente and Nicole Malliotakis remained in the Republican primary. However, two Malliotakis supporters, with the blessing of her campaign, filed objections to De La Fuente's ballot petition signatures. On August 1, the New York City Board of Elections found that De La Fuente did not have sufficient valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, effectively ending De La Fuente's candidacy and leaving Malliotakis unopposed for the nomination.
caption: Excerpt from De La Fuente's mayoral campaign material
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