Bloomberg announces run for presidency

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In a decision that is sure to cause, at the very least, tremors in the Democratic race for president, former New York mayor and Bloomberg media mogul Michael Bloomberg, 77, has announced he is in it to win it.

“I believe my unique set of experiences in business, government, and philanthropy will enable me to win and lead,” Bloomberg wrote on Twitter in his announcement video.

Bloomberg claims he will be a centrist in a race where candidates have been under pressure to prove their progressive bonafides.

In his video, a narrator says that Bloomberg will make sure that “the wealthy will pay more in taxes, and the struggling middle class will get their fair share.”

The narrator also says that Bloomberg advocates a plan where “everyone without health insurance is guaranteed to get it, and everyone who like theirs can go ahead and keep it.”

That puts him at odds with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who favor a single-payer plan known as Medicare for All.

The narrator also says that Bloomberg sees “a different kind of menace coming from Washington,” but “there’s no stopping here, because there is an America waiting to be rebuilt.” Bloomberg railed against Trump at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, even though he was still registered as an independent. Watch below:

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Bloomberg announced last spring that he would not run, but his reconsideration is an indication that he was not satisfied with the way that the Democratic primary has evolved.

He has since registered as a democrat.

What is unclear is if Bloomberg will be allowed to participate in any of the presidential debates.

The Democratic National Committee qualifications for the next debate, to be held on Dec. 19 in Los Angeles, call for candidates to meet a polling threshold of at least 4% in four polls (or 6% in two early state polls), and at least 200,000 unique donors.

A key question, according to CNN, will be how Bloomberg’s media property covers the presidential field, and whether his role changes at Bloomberg LP.

He stepped away from the company when he was mayor of New York, but rejoined it in 2014 as president and CEO.

Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait addressed how the news outlet will cover Bloomberg, the company founder, as he campaigns for president.

In a memo obtained by CNN, Micklethwait wrote that they will not do investigative reporting on Bloomberg or his Democratic rivals. If Bloomberg were to win the Democratic nomination to rival Trump, he said that they would reassess how they would cover the president.

“There is no point in trying to claim that covering this presidential campaign will be easy for a newsroom that has built up its reputation for independence in part by not writing about ourselves (and very rarely about our direct competition),” he wrote. “No previous presidential candidate has owned a journalistic organization of this size. We have electoral laws to follow — to do with both balance and opinion. We will certainly obey them, but I think we need to do more than just that — and I believe we can.”

Micklethwait also wrote that they will suspend their opinion board so there will be no unsigned editorials. Some of the board members, including David Shipley and Tim O’Brien, are leaving to join the campaign. They will continue to take op eds from outsiders, but no op eds on the election, Micklethwait wrote.

Bloomberg is a late entrant into the presidential race, but not the only one. Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, launched his campaign earlier this month.

Bloomberg will not accept political donations, relying instead on his vast personal fortune. his adviser Howard Wolfson said, according to cnbc.

SOURCE: Multiple

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In a decision that is sure to cause, at the very least, tremors in the Democratic race for president, former New York mayor and Bloomberg media mogul Michael Bloomberg, 77, has announced he is in it to win it.

“I believe my unique set of experiences in business, government, and philanthropy will enable me to win and lead,” Bloomberg wrote on Twitter in his announcement video.

Bloomberg claims he will be a centrist in a race where candidates have been under pressure to prove their progressive bonafides.

In his video, a narrator says that Bloomberg will make sure that “the wealthy will pay more in taxes, and the struggling middle class will get their fair share.”

The narrator also says that Bloomberg advocates a plan where “everyone without health insurance is guaranteed to get it, and everyone who like theirs can go ahead and keep it.”

That puts him at odds with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who favor a single-payer plan known as Medicare for All.

The narrator also says that Bloomberg sees “a different kind of menace coming from Washington,” but “there’s no stopping here, because there is an America waiting to be rebuilt.” Bloomberg railed against Trump at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, even though he was still registered as an independent. Watch below:

ALSO READ: Florida journalists trademark, ‘fake news’

Bloomberg announced last spring that he would not run, but his reconsideration is an indication that he was not satisfied with the way that the Democratic primary has evolved.

He has since registered as a democrat.

What is unclear is if Bloomberg will be allowed to participate in any of the presidential debates.

The Democratic National Committee qualifications for the next debate, to be held on Dec. 19 in Los Angeles, call for candidates to meet a polling threshold of at least 4% in four polls (or 6% in two early state polls), and at least 200,000 unique donors.

A key question, according to CNN, will be how Bloomberg’s media property covers the presidential field, and whether his role changes at Bloomberg LP.

He stepped away from the company when he was mayor of New York, but rejoined it in 2014 as president and CEO.

Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait addressed how the news outlet will cover Bloomberg, the company founder, as he campaigns for president.

In a memo obtained by CNN, Micklethwait wrote that they will not do investigative reporting on Bloomberg or his Democratic rivals. If Bloomberg were to win the Democratic nomination to rival Trump, he said that they would reassess how they would cover the president.

“There is no point in trying to claim that covering this presidential campaign will be easy for a newsroom that has built up its reputation for independence in part by not writing about ourselves (and very rarely about our direct competition),” he wrote. “No previous presidential candidate has owned a journalistic organization of this size. We have electoral laws to follow — to do with both balance and opinion. We will certainly obey them, but I think we need to do more than just that — and I believe we can.”

Micklethwait also wrote that they will suspend their opinion board so there will be no unsigned editorials. Some of the board members, including David Shipley and Tim O’Brien, are leaving to join the campaign. They will continue to take op eds from outsiders, but no op eds on the election, Micklethwait wrote.

Bloomberg is a late entrant into the presidential race, but not the only one. Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, launched his campaign earlier this month.

Bloomberg will not accept political donations, relying instead on his vast personal fortune. his adviser Howard Wolfson said, according to cnbc.

SOURCE: Multiple