Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is actively thinking of running for president in 2020 as a Democrat.
“It’s impossible to conceive that I could run as a Republican – things like choice, so many of the issues, I’m just way away from where the Republican Party is today,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a New York Times report Monday.
“That’s not to say I’m with the Democratic Party on everything, but I don’t see how you could possibly run as a Republican,” Bloomberg said. “So if you ran, yeah, you’d have to run as a Democrat.”
Bloomberg served three terms as New York City mayor and has variously been a Democrat, Republican and independent. He twice flirted with running for president as an independent candidate, but ruled it out.
The 76-year-old founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a global media company, has already lined up behind Democrats in the midterm elections and is using his money to attack Republicans on gun control, abortion and environmental issues.
Bloomberg did not say when he would make a decision on whether to run for president.
“I’m working on this Nov. 6 election, and after that I’ll take a look at it,” Bloomberg said.
(AP)
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What would his position be as far as Israel, as a presidential candidate?
This is what was written in 2016:
The 73-year-old former mayor has been extremely supportive of Israel with what seems like a generational Jewish attachment. He has funded buildings in his parents’ names there and he flew to Israel a year and a half ago to declare that it was within its rights to bomb Gaza to smithereens (a judgement against international law). He has adopted neoconservative positions on foreign policy and aided Islamophobic efforts in New York city. Yet in a couple of instances, Bloomberg has disappointed the Israel lobby.
Just imagine, no big cups in seven- eleven, and no MBP all over the country……
National alternate side parking
no plastic anywhere
Mandatory soda. Bottle limit size
I want no part of mike Bloomberg. With his soda ban bris milah thing plastic bags etc etc liberal insanities. And with Israel you never know what he’ll say. Don’t trust him
What is it with New Yorkers and running for president?
Haughty much?