Bloomberg on his 2020 Dem rivals: 'Trump would just eat them up' Fox News, Dec 6, 2019
As he takes aim at President Trump, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is also taking some jabs at his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Explaining in an interview with CBS This Morning why he launched a White House bid late last month – with just two months to go until the start of the primary and caucus nominating calendar – the multibillionaire business and media mogul said “I watched all the candidates and I thought to myself, 'Donald Trump would just eat them up'.”
“Let me rephrase it. I think that I would do the best job of competing with him and beating him,” added Bloomberg, who has poured millions of his own money in recent years to battling gun violence and curbing climate change.
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Bloomberg’s skipping the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina – which hold the first four contests in February. Instead, he’s campaigning in the delegate-rich Super Tuesday states that vote at the beginning of March, and beyond. He’s already invested an eye-popping $57 million to carpet the airwaves in media markets from coast to coast with TV campaign commercials.
Bloomberg’s entry into the race – and the vast sums of money he’s spending – have angered some of his rivals