New York, NY – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is mulling a third-party presidential run, says the leading candidates are “trying to exploit” Americans’ worries.
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Bloomberg says the campaign to this point “has been a race to the extremes.” He says one way to solve the nation’s problems is by “recognizing that compromise is not a bad word.”
While he is not signaling an intention to run, he says the political landscape is dominated by a “corrupt, gridlocked and broken two-party system that answers to lobbyists and special interests instead of the American people.”
Bloomberg is said to be unhappy with the rise of Bernie Sanders among Democrats and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. His advisers believe he could fill a vacant centrist, pragmatic lane to the White House. He has set a March deadline to decide if he will jump in the race.
Bloomberg spoke Thursday night at a book party he hosted for Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.
The problem Bloomberg always had was understanding the average Joe
The point in this election is people are sick and tired of being walked all over and want people like Sanders and Trump
And you won’t be able to stop them
At some point sanity will need to reign in and people will reevaluate their commitment to blustery Trump and Comrade Sanders. If that happens Bloomberg could be a very sane alternative. Although Ted Cruz has been sounding very presidential lately!
Bloomberg is a less wealthy, less interesting version of Trump.
Bloomberg is arrogant, a hypocrtice telling us to be unarmed while being protected by armed guards 24/7, speaking of gridlock he created much of it in NYC through those traffic islands and bike lanes.
Reply to 5. It might help a Republican election, but don’t assume Trump is a shoe in. Cruz has been doing very well and surely saner heads will prevail