Former NY Mayor Bloomberg to Forgo 2020 White House Bid
March 5, 2019, 7:55 PM
Former NY Mayor Bloomberg to Forgo 2020 White House Bid
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, Jan. 25, 2019.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 2020 but will instead launch an effort aimed at combating climate change, he said on Tuesday.
A billionaire who could have sunk millions of his own dollars into a campaign, Bloomberg had publicly toyed with running and has become a vocal critic of President Donald Trump.
He spent millions of dollars last year helping Democrats get elected and has invested in advocating for sweeping gun control laws.
Bloomberg, 77, made his 2020 announcement in an opinion piece on the site of Bloomberg News, the company he runs.
He said he was mindful of the difficulty of prevailing in the Democratic Party nominating primary process, especially given the leftward turn the party has taken in recent years.
"I believe I would defeat Donald Trump in a general election," Bloomberg wrote. "But I am clear-eyed about the difficulty of winning the Democratic nomination in such a crowded field."
Bloomberg would have run as a more moderate candidate among the progressives who currently dominate the 12-member field, which so far largely consists of sitting U.S. senators.
"Many people have urged me to run," he wrote. "Some have told me that to win the Democratic nomination, I would need to change my views to match the polls."
Bloomberg said he would instead use his massive personal fortune to launch a climate change effort, Beyond Carbon, with the goal of moving the nation away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy sources.
In 2014, the United Nations appointed him the first special envoy for cities and climate change to work with cities globally to combat global warming.
He has ripped Trump as a "climate denier" for pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement.
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