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Related: About this forumBloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run
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Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this years presidential race. His advisers and associates said he was galled by Donald J. Trumps dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clintons stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.
Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has in the past contemplated running for the White House on a third-party ticket, but always concluded he could not win. A confluence of unlikely events in the 2016 election, however, has given new impetus to his presidential aspirations.
Mr. Bloomberg, 73, has already taken concrete steps toward a possible campaign, and has indicated to friends and allies that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his fortune on it, according to people briefed on his deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his plans. He has set a deadline for making a final decision in early March, the latest point at which advisers believe Mr. Bloomberg could enter the race and still qualify to appear as an independent candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyregion/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)I don't see a moderate industrialist billionaire pulling away Bernie supporters ... Bloomberg is the antithesis of a solution ...
The exact opposite of what is needed ...
retrowire
(10,345 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)I see Bloomberg as the candidate for Republicans who think Trump is too extreme, and Bernie would probably love to run against two billionaires.
DaveT
(687 posts)That would create a Sanders landslide in the Electoral College -- maybe even carrying deep red states.