Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is reportedly instructing aides to draw up plans for an independent, 2016 run at the White House. “I think I would do very well against him”.
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On Sunday, Clinton called Bloomberg a “good friend of mine” and suggested that if she got the nomination, Bloomberg wouldn’t run.
Trump said Bloomberg had been a friend but “I don’t know if we’re friends anymore, frankly”.
An anonymous source told CNN that Bloomberg would definitely jump into the race if it looked like Donald Trump or Ted Cruz would go up against Bernie Sanders.
In an interview on “Meet The Press” on Sunday, the Democratic presidential candidate said that he doubted that voters would be interested in electing a billionaire.
A former billionaire mayor of NY is apparently considering running to become the next US President.
Forbes magazine ranks him as the 14th richest person on the planet, with a total net worth of $35.5 billion.
One of the richest people in the United States, Bloomberg has previously toyed with presidential runs, but concluded ahead of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns he could not win.
Clinton dismissed speculations surrounding Bloomberg’s possible bid, and is confident that she’ll secure the Democratic nomination, according to NBC.
“I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about Mayor Bloomberg, or what he might or might not do”, Rubio said on “Fox News Sunday”.
“It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life”, Sanders said.
Part of Bloomberg’s motivation to enter the race stems from a frustration with Clinton’s campaign, the source said. Clinton has been dogged by questions about her honesty amid an ongoing investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state. The last major third-party candidate, Ross Perot, won 18.9 percent of the vote in 1992, which some observers believe enabled Bill Clinton to defeat then-incumbent President George H.W. Bush. Slowly, establishment Republicans were heading in Trump’s direction largely because he’s not the combative Cruz. Bloomberg played up his business expertise and campaigned as the candidate best able to help steady New York’s economy in the aftermath of the attacks.
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The former New York Mayor, who maintains a cordial relationship with Clinton, is the founder of Bloomberg LP, a financial news and information provider, and is largely a social liberal who is America’s most vocal advocate of gun control.
