Trump Would ‘Love To’ Run Against Bloomberg

Mr.de Blasio also said that too much power is in the hands of billionaires in the country, a reaction to the possibility of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg getting into the presidential race as an independent candidate. “I think I’d do very well against it”. They met privately at Bloomberg’s offices a few months before Clinton announced her campaign last April, before an event announcing a philanthropic initiative to measure and track data about issues affecting women and girls. Michael’s been a friend of mine over the years, perhaps we’re not friends anymore.

“I am a conservative”, Trump, endorsed this week by 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, said on NBC.

One Republican contender, OH governor John Kasich, has called Mr Bloomberg a “good mayor” and says he might help raise the level of the presidential debate if he ran. Republican front-runner Donald Trump earlier this week told The New York Times, “I would love to see Michael run – I would love the competition”.

“When you are not a candidate, you don’t deserve to be evaluated as whether you’ll be a good president or not”, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.

That billionaires are the people controlling our political life. “I would love to see Michael Bloomberg run”, the bombastic billionaire added in his response to questions over reports that the former three-term mayor was mulling a late third-party run for the presidency.

Clinton dismissed speculations surrounding Bloomberg’s possible bid, and is confident that she’ll secure the Democratic nomination, according to NBC.

Sanders, an opponent of super-rich campaigning, has surged in surveys, endangering Clinton’s hopes as state-by-state nomination contests approach.

Though no independent has ever won a US presidential election, Bloomberg is said to be emboldened about his prospects, particularly given a scenario where either Trump or Texas Senator Ted Cruz actually emerges as the Republican nominee and if Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is somehow able to earn the Democratic nomination. “He’s all about, ‘I know better than you do.’ It’s the antithesis of America when we get down to micromanaging what people are drinking”. Slowly, some establishment Republicans were heading in Trump’s direction largely because he’s not the combative Cruz.

Sanders, Clinton’s chief rival, has recently surged in polling in key early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire. A longtime Democrat, he switched to the Republican party to run for mayor in 2001.