Posted on 01/11/2019 12:53:19 PM PST by seanmerc
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that if he runs for president, he’ll pay for it himself, defending candidates who use personal riches to bankroll campaigns.
Bloomberg’s comments to reporters in Texas on Friday follow a jab from another top 2020 contender. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently decried the Democratic presidential nomination becoming “one more plaything that billionaires can buy.”
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Oh no! Big Gulps are doomed!
Go for it, little Michael!
Hopefully he will run as an Independent. He will siphon votes from the flawed democratic candidate. Trump may even carry California.
He’d siphon votes from both sides. Though likely most of his votes would come from places that know him or would warm to him: CA, IL, NJ, CT, NY... so you may be right.
Perot payback.
My money’s on Joe. GO JOE!
I have little doubt that Joe will be the nominee. Not sure who would be his mate, perhaps Kamala.
until he can’t self fund no more
Sure Mike, spend all your millions getting the msg out that you want to be president. Spend spend spend but that msg is worth nothing.
Bloomberg is selling Bloomberg LP, presumably in preparation for 2020. His estimated net worth is $50b. If he merely spent $15b, that would be 10x all of the spending of all of the nomination contests and general election campaigns in 2016 combined. 10x what everyone else spent, combined, was what it took for him to occupy Gracie Mansion for 3 terms in NYC. I’d expect Bloomberg to spend at least billions in a presidential run. As a man who became a multi-billionaire from essentially nothing, and swept aside long-established financial data companies like Thomson and Reuters, Bloomberg is a formidable personality.
[Hopefully he will run as an Independent. He will siphon votes from the flawed democratic candidate. Trump may even carry California.]
Gee, it would be too bad if he spent his fortune on the election and lost.
An idiot for a client....
I have little doubt that Joe will be the nominee. Not sure who would be his mate, perhaps Kamala.
hehehe, i can hardly wait for the first photo session together and he inappropriately fondles her.
Not sure I want to watch Joe’s hands on style of leadership with her has running mate.
Yes, he’s one of the main constituents funding attacks against our Second Amendment. The next Supreme Court justice had better be the best we can be sure of and not a political correctness pick.
I will say this for him, he’s got a lot of money.
If Michael Bloomberg wins the first few Democratic primaries — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina — he’ll be the odds-on favorite to win the nomination.
And winning the early primaries shouldn’t take more than a few $billion.
Somebody should attend one of his events and yell “Can you please stand up?” when he’s actaully standing up and talking.
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