2016 Postmortem

still_one

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46. Bloomberg left the republican party, and ran as an independent in 2007

Mon Jan 18, 2016, 02:24 AM

Jan 2016

and has not looked back.

Bloomberg is NOT running for president in 2016, and he is an independent.

As far as zuckerman's usnews, and the Atlantic assessment, they are full of baloney.

Those rumors have been going on for years.

He started off as a democrat, changed to republican, and is now an independent when the republicans went far right

The last election Bloomberg ran for mayor he ran as an independent, and won as an independent.

He is an independent now, and has been since 2007. That is how he views himself.

and he is not running for President in 2016, no matter what the bullshit rumor mills are saying. He has repeatedly said so. Not unlike when Elizabeth Warren said she would not run for President in 2016. The press can spew whatever garbage they want, and they will still be wrong.

Also, the base of the republican party does not like Bloomberg. That is a very well known fact. Hell will freeze over before they nominate him.

A person is what he identifies with today, not 10 years ago, and today he is an independent, and the last election he won, was as an independent.

Sorry that doesn't fit your version of reality

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