Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced he will not add his name to the candidates for the Democratic nomination in the current race for the White House since he claims that, by doing so, he would strengthen Donald Trump.
Michael R. Bloomberg, who for months quietly laid the groundwork to run for president as an independent, will not enter the 2016 campaign, he said Monday, citing his fear that a three-way race could lead to the election of a candidate he thinks would endanger the country: Donald J. Trump.
In a forceful condemnation of his fellow New Yorker, Bloomberg said Trump had run “the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people’s prejudices and fears.” He said he was alarmed by Trump’s threats to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the country and to initiate trade wars against China and Japan, and he was disturbed by Trump’s “feigning ignorance of white supremacists,” alluding to Trump’s initial refusal to disavow support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
By: The Algemeiner
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