Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The billionaire co-founded Bloomberg LP, a financial information and media company, in 1981. On Nov. 24, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on March 4, 2020.
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“I certainly supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... I was there both times for them.”
During his tenure as mayor of New York City, “street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.”
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Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the…
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Says “black babies die at rates twice as high as white babies because of a lack of access to affordable health care.”
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Video shows Democratic presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds when discussing whether any of them started a business.
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“When we discovered, I discovered, that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95% of it out.”
North Carolina's Democratic primary is open to "all registered voters, regardless of registration."
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"Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent, covering 700,000 more New Yorkers"
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"We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country."
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New York crime did drop when 2020 hopeful Michael Bloomberg was mayor, but he claims too much credit
"No other city in America did what (New York) did. We reduced murders by 50%, reduced police shootings to historic lows, reduced the number of…