Michael Bloomberg has stated for the first time that he is considering a run for U.S. President. Speaking to the Financial Times, he said he is looking at all options.
"I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal and an outrage and an insult to the voters," he said, before adding that the U.S. public deserved "a lot better".
He has told his advisers to draft a plan to run as an independent and that he would spend $1 billion on a campaign. He also indicated he would need to start putting his name on the ballots across the U.S. at the beginning in March.
The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed late on why former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg could win as an independent. It was written by his pollster, Douglas Schoen.
Schoen in the middle, I am on the right.
“As the results from the Iowa caucuses rolled in Monday, it became more clear than ever: If former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ran for president as an independent, he would be a serious contender for the White House,” Schoen writes.
Pundits are missing the Americans in the middle who aren’t angry or polarized but don’t participate in Democratic or Republican primaries, Schoen argues. He points to the fact that just one-fifth of Iowans voted in Monday’s caucuses.
“That’s the new silent majority: the millions of Americans who don’t participate in Democratic or Republican primaries. They are equally as fed up with the status quo, but they have a different approach to problem-solving and different policy prescriptions than those on the ideological extremes,” Schoen says.
As America becomes more polarized, Schoen concludes, there's an opportunity for a candidate to run through the middle:
“Who fits the bill? Michael Bloomberg, a centrist with a clear (and arguably unique) record in business as an entrepreneur and in politics as a three-term mayor of New York. Mr. Bloomberg is a fiscally prudent conciliator who advances pro-growth policies and takes tough stands."
I worked on all three of Bloomberg's campaigns as an elected official of the NY Independence Party and the NYC Independence Party Organizations.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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