Editorial notes: Kind of a silly rhetorical fantasy. Bloomberg is as close to being a commie as Bernie and would take vote count from Hillary. His rhetoric is much closer to Hillary's than any Republican. He would not garner 10% of the popular vote (he is "popular" only in his own eyes and New York City) and zero percent of the electoral vote . . . . . . all good for the GOP nominee. Not sure why this article appears in the Weekly Standard.
The Weekly Standard:
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New
York, commissioned a poll in December “testing how he would fare against
Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, according to two sources close to Mr.
Bloomberg,” the New York Times reports.
Bloomberg would have the resources to launch an expensive third-party
run, but a hypothetical Bloomberg candidacy against Trump and Clinton
still wouldn’t offer mainstream Republicans any appealing options.
Bloomberg was a longtime Democrat before he became a Republican in 2001
to run for mayor. In 2007, he left the Republican party and registered
as an independent, but he has remained consistently liberal on a wide
range of issues, including guns, abortion, and immigration. “Clinton vs.
Trump vs. Bloomberg would finally give America a diverse range of
NY-based oligarchs to choose from,” Times reporter Alex Burns quipped on
Twitter.
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