Who likes Mike? The billionaire Michael Bloomberg has ended years of speculation by announcing that he is running to be president in 2020.
You can see his twinkling piano new campaign ad here. The video pitches him as the reluctant hero who always steps up when America needs him. Keep those inspiring chord changes coming: it’s the sound of a hundred political consultants getting very rich.
https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1198620233994526722
Bloomberg, who is considerably richer than the man in the White House, long ago put aside an enormous slush fund to stop Trump winning re-election.
He probably would have been willing to throw his enormous financial muscle behind a Democrat he rated. But Bloomberg has now acknowledged a truth, one I wrote about for the magazine three weeks ago — the Democrats seem embarrassingly unable to produce a candidate who can beat Trump at the ballot. With 70 days to go until the Iowa caucuses, the situation is getting desperate.
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