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Home Front: Politix
Clinton vows to win nomination to keep Bloomberg out of race
2016-01-25
[Iran Press TV] US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ...
 has vowed to win the Democratic Party's nomination to "relieve" former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Nanny Bloomberg of any thoughts of running for president.
The race is wide open. Anybody with a few billion can get in.
"The way I read what he said is if I didn't get the nomination, he might consider it," Clinton told NBC News on Sunday. "Well, I'm going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn't have to [run]."

"He's a good friend of mine, and I'm going to do the best I can to make sure that I get the nomination, and we'll go from there," she added.

According to a report, Bloomberg is considering a third-party White House run if race comes down to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
 and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

The billionaire has advised friends and associates that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his own money on a campaign for the November 2016 election, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 reported on Friday, citing sources briefed on the former mayor's plans.
Posted by:Fred

#8  OOOOOOPPPPSSS, forgot to say that as per FREEREPUBLIC, BERNIE SANDERS is repor ahead of Hillary by 16 points in this week's countdown poll to Iowa.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-01-25 23:25  

#7  Bloomburg's US1.0Bilyuhn war chest for 2016 is on LUCIANNE + FREEREPUBLIC.

FYI as per US DEBT CLOCK.ORG, US National Debt stands at US$18.93Trilyuhn, wid US Debt-to-GDP Ratio of 103.9% = just under 104.0%.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-01-25 23:22  

#6  Bloomberg is worried about his investment in the establishment candidates who are all floundering!
Posted by: Airandee   2016-01-25 18:30  

#5  Maybe Clinton needs to look up the definition of "3rd party".
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2016-01-25 15:39  

#4  If Bloomberg weren't filthy rich and I weren't filthy poor I'd make a donation to buy him a condo on some nice mediterranean island like Elba.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-01-25 14:34  

#3  Clinton vows to win nomination to keep Bloomberg out of race

Selfless sacrifice.
Posted by: gorb   2016-01-25 14:13  

#2  Bloomberg does not have serious name recognition on the west coast. Thats gonna be a problem.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-01-25 13:49  

#1  The billionaire has advised friends and associates that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his own money on a campaign for the November 2016 election...

Trump's also a billionaire, and he hasn't spent squat so far. A rational person with no chance whatsoever of winning would do no such thing, which is why I'm hoping he gets in!
Posted by: Raj   2016-01-25 01:06  

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