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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:16 PM Jan 2019

Michael Bloomberg Says A Third-Party Candidate Would Help Re-elect Trump

Should former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz run for president as an independent ― as he has suggested he might ― it would split the Democratic vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s re-election, billionaire Michael Bloomberg said.

In a tweet Monday afternoon, Bloomberg ― who himself is flirting with a 2020 run as a Democrat ― said that any third-party candidate would disproportionately threaten the Democratic nominee, whoever he or she is, in the 2020 presidential election.

“Given the strong pull of partisanship and the realities of the electoral college system, there is no way an independent can win,” he said as part of a statement. “That is truer today than ever before.

I have seen enough data over many years to know that anyone running for POTUS as an independent will split the anti-incumbent, anti-Trump vote,” he wrote. “The stakes couldn’t be higher. We can not afford the risk of spoiler politics that result in Trump’s re-election.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/howard-wolfson-howard-schultz-trump_us_5c4f1f3ce4b0e1872d4621f5

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Michael Bloomberg Says A Third-Party Candidate Would Help Re-elect Trump (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2019 OP

finally the voice of reason AlexSFCA Jan 2019 #1

+1000 smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #2

Not if it's Mitt Romney or any other right winger Yosemito Jan 2019 #3

I don't agree. redstatebluegirl Jan 2019 #4

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)

1. finally the voice of reason

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Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:23 PM

Jan 2019

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

2. +1000

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:27 PM

Jan 2019

For once I agree with Bloomberg.

Yosemito

(648 posts)

3. Not if it's Mitt Romney or any other right winger

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:29 PM

Jan 2019

Bloomberg’s statement is simplistic and makes no sense.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)

4. I don't agree.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:33 PM

Jan 2019

I don't take anything Bloomberg says as gospel for us. He isn't one of us, he is one of them. Sorry folks, he may say he is a democrat but he is a billionaire. His motivation is monetary.

Schultz might take a few from us in the independent category but I don' t see moderate dems voting for him. I know many of you love to say corporate democrats, but I don't see that.

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