Michael Bloomberg To Endorse Hillary Clinton

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent who considered his own presidential run this year, will endorse Hillary Clinton and speak at the Democratic National Convention, a senior Clinton official confirmed to CNN.

Michael Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton have a good working relationship, started when he was mayor and she a senator from NY. Now an independent, Bloomberg himself is not a Democrat, and was elected mayor as a Republican. Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican Party, appealed to our ‘better angels.’ Trump appeals to our worst impulses’.

Though in a March op-ed titled “The Risk I will Not Take”, published in Bloomberg View, he said he would not run for president despite the growing number of Americans urging him to.

But Bloomberg has made it clear that he is not a fan of Trump, one of his former constituents. ‘I think the Republicans are making a awful mistake in making this a big issue.’ He added that if Republicans don’t address other, more important, issues ‘they will lose and they deserve to lose’.

By contrast, Bloomberg’s predecessor as mayor, Rudy Giuliani, at the Republican National Convention last week, delivered a bombastic endorsement of Trump, praising police across the USA and promising, “What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America”. Bloomberg, who was previously elected as a Republican and later became an independent, has been sharply critical of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and in particular of his fellow New Yorker’s inflammatory rhetoric on immigration.