Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner highlights former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s take on the deciding factor in the 2016 presidential election.
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, says Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to President Trump because “she never got a real message out, whereas Donald had us saying ‘Make America Great Again.'”
“Hilary never got a real message out,” said Bloomberg, who considered running for president as an independent, in an interview Tuesday night with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “It was don’t vote for that guy and the gender issue. Whereas Donald had us saying ‘Make America Great Again,'” said Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday night with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I don’t know what again means. But America — that’s patriotic. And great, that’s a good word. I thought, it’s not quite that simple, but we do live in a world of 140 characters, and slogans matter.”
Bloomberg, who recently said Trump has a 55 percent chance of being re-elected, explained further that Trump’s “advantage” in 2020 would be the fact that he would be running as the incumbent. He also criticized the Democratic Party for being “torn apart by the Left.”
