Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking early steps toward launching an independent campaign for president, seeing a potential path to the White House amid the rise of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders.
Bloomberg has retained advisers and plans to conduct a poll after the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary to assess the state of the race and judge whether there is an opening for him to mount an independent campaign, according to three people familiar with his thinking. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about his plans, which were first reported Saturday by The New York Times.
Bloomberg has set a March deadline to decide on whether to enter the race, to ensure his access to the ballot in all 50 states.
The billionaire media executive, who served three terms as mayor of New York, is said to be concerned by Trump’s lasting hold on the Republican field and is worried about the impact of Sanders’ campaign on Hillary Clinton’s bid for the Democratic nomination.
He is a dishonorable man.
Became a republican just to win, then switched to independent then back to his original democrat party.
What piece of garbage worth millions.
For anyone that forgot or uninformed:
Bloomberg is anti Judaism, pro abortion, pro same gender marriage, anti Bris milag.
He will ruin it for the democrats not the republicans.
He would be an embarrassment to the jewish people.
Pro abortion, pro alternative lifestyle relationships. Bloomberg is against Judaism.
He’s going to ruin it for the republicans, and for all of us!!
a good combo:
Bloomberg will be President
Rudy Guliani will be Mayor again.
actually, Guliani for President sounds GREAT.
He was quick to show support for Israel and flew there amid Hamas incited violence. He has my vote! Given the poor choices, he has a chance to win. Waiting to hear good news!
YES!!!!