Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided that he will not enter the Presidential race, for fear of tipping the election to Donald Trump.
Bloomberg had laid the groundwork for a billion-dollar campaign, self-funded, according to the New York Times. A Bloomberg campaign video is included in the story. He had done extensive polling, hired a staff, had selected a likely running mate, and had offices ready to go in different states.
In a forceful condemnation of his fellow New Yorker, Mr. Bloomberg said Mr. Trump has run “the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people’s prejudices and fears.” He said he was alarmed by Mr. Trump’s threats to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the country and to initiate trade wars against China and Japan, and he was disturbed by Mr. Trump’s “feigning ignorance of David Duke,” the white supremacist leader whose support Mr. Trump initially refused to disavow.
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I guess his research says most people like him about as much as I do.
His research told him that his entry into the race would lead to this sort of map on election night, where red is Trump, blue is Clinton, and green is Bloomberg:
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Enough people like him to make it a rout for Trump.
Reblogged this on Politicians Are Poody Heads and commented:
Well, at least one very rich New York City egotist finally found a bit of his brain. And I won’t even publicly speculate exactly where he found that bit of his brain. 😉
With a colonoscopy???
Mr. Bloomberg ran “the most divisive and demagogic mayoral campaigns” most NYers can remember, preying on teachers and other public sector employees. Mr. Bloomberg’s practice of closing schools in low-income neighborhoods and his racially motivated police policy of stop and frisk were deeply disturbing to many voters. Equally as disturbing was Mr. Bloomberg’s “feigning ignorance of term limits and economic inequality”
Bloomberg re Trump: it takes one to know one?
😎
Thanks Billy Northeast–absolutely right.
All of Bloomberg’s former political opponents are well aware of “Bloomberg’s Attacksonome”
Does he really believe the people who are voting for Donald Trump know or care who “Michael Bloomberg” is?
Tell 100 random people in Michigan when they’re at the polls tomorrow that Michael Bloomberg doesn’t like Donald Trump. 99 of them won’t have any idea what you’re talking about and even AFTER you tell them they won’t care.
The disconnect seems to be pretty profound. Our political and business leaders should probably get out more. They seem to live in a hermetically sealed bubble surrounded by people who kowtow to them.
I don’t understand why the Republican Party is surprised by Trump. They’ve been laying the groundwork for this sort of candidate since 1968!
Yes. To paraphrase Stephen King: when you unrestrainedly and irresponsibly sew dragon seeds, you ultimately find yourself dealing with a dragon.
Bloomberg News reported that Sen. Cory Booker attended the 2015 secret American Enterprise Institute annual World Forum, along with tech CEO’s. In 2014, AEI’s Frederick Hess co-wrote, with an employee of a Gates- funded organization, a paper that quoted reformers as saying, “We’ve got to blow up the ed schools.”
Further evidence, IMO, that Cory Booker is a DINO.
Linda,
Cory Booker is a huge supporter of charters and vouchers. He is often honored by rightwing groups.
Cory has been a fraud for more than a decade.
I dunno, I think we need to retire the word “DINO” and face the fact that Cory Booker is what the Democratic Party is – the “moderate” wing of the Republican Party. If anything, actual liberals like Bernie Sanders are DINOs.
“Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.
The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”
Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.”
Business, political and media leaders are attending an invitation-only meeting on a private island at a luxury resort to try to figure out why so many voters think they’re part of an “elite establishment” and completely out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people?
You really can’t make this stuff up. It’s like they TRY to appear exactly as Trump portrays them.
Very interesting, Chiara. Especially what you say at the end of this comment and earlier about the “hermetically sealed bubble” our political and business leaders inhabit. I think that’s a very dangerous situation….when the people making huge decisions in our society start to live so distantly from the rest of us.
Thank you, Chiara. Unbelievable. It wasn’t Jekyll Island, was it?
“The Trumpenstein Monster”
Of bowels and growls
And Trumps and chumps
The monster prowls
On campaign stumps
It seems like the war of the Billionaires. I think likewise Mr Bloomberg is a bully dictating what people can drink. Trump is greatly needed in this Country even though he is politically incorrect. And with all Trump rhetoric he still has to get Congress approval on almost everything. I do however feel that there is an.underlying envy on his attackers part because Trump has charisma and he seems to mesmarize. He has very loyal supporters.