Bloomberg willing to spend $1 billion on possible presidential bid!
NEW YORK (PNN) - January 25, 2016 - Former New York City fascist mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking a look at the 2016 presidential landscape, and putting the pieces in place for a possible presidential run.
“What he said is if I didn’t get the nomination he might consider it,” Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said. “Well I’m gonna relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn’t have to.”
But Clinton may have it wrong. Sources close to Bloomberg said the former mayor is ramping up a possible presidential run regardless of who gets the Democrat nomination, eyeing an Independent third-party bid.
“I would love to have Michael get in the race - I don’t know if he’s going to do it - but I hope he does,” GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn’t think Bloomberg is the right man for the White House, saying that the people of this country want to be in a better place.
“The people of this country are not going to turn to a billionaire to solve problems that were created largely by billionaires,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio also slammed Trump, saying he has “affronted the vast majority of the Amerikan people,” including women, Mexican-Amerikans, and Muslims.
“Donald Trump proves almost on a daily basis he can’t be president of the (Fascist Police States of Amerika), because he says not only outlandish things but entirely inappropriate things,” said De Blasio.
Bloomberg, who weighed a presidential run once before in 2008, is upset with both Trump and Clinton, where Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders could quite possibly win the first two Democrat contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“If Donald Trump wins and Bloomberg gets in you’re gonna have two multi-billionaires running for president,” Sanders said. “The Amerikan people do not want to see our nation moved toward an oligarchy.”
Sources say Bloomberg has already done polling and has hired a consultant to get him on the ballot in all 50 states. Sources say Bloomberg is willing to spend around $1 billion on the campaign.
According to a new poll by Morning Consult, the number could go two different ways, depending on the Democrat winner.
If Bernie Sanders secures the nomination, he would upset Trump in the polls by one point, polling at 35% to Trump’s 34%. Bloomberg would place third with 12% of the vote.
If Clinton secures the nomination, she would poll at 36% compared to Trump’s 37%, with Bloomberg trailing at 13% of the vote.
The poll was done before Bloomberg was able to do any campaigning.
Some candidates were not happy about the Bloomberg development.
“We have differing views and I want to be the conservative candidate to lead the Conservative Party into the general election,” Jeb Bush said.
“When you’re not a candidate you don’t deserve to be evaluated as whether you’re going to be a good president or not,” Chris Christie said.
“As of now he’s just a private citizen who owns a big company,” Senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) said.
Sources close to Bloomberg say he is far more optimistic about his chances than he was the last time he thought about running in 2008. He also thinks that if the race was thrown into the House of Representatives, he might be able to get enough Republican support to prevail.
Sources close to Bloomberg say he will make an official decision on the presidential bid by March.