As he continues to mull a 2020 presidential bid, Michael R. Bloomberg, a former New York mayor and onetime Republican, said Monday that he thinks Democrats are looking for a “middle-of-the-road” strategy and want a president who would govern pragmatically. During an appearance on ABC’s “The View,” Bloomberg offered nothing definite about whether he plans to run, saying he will think more seriously about it early in the new year. “I think most Democrats want a middle-of-the-road strategy,” Bloomberg said, after being asked whether he could navigate the Democratic nominating contests, which tend to draw the party’s more-liberal members. Bloomberg didn’t name anyone advocating a different approach, but his rhetoric stood in stark contrast to, for instance, that of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Bloomberg announced in October that he was registering to vote as a Democrat, a move that stoked further speculation about his White House ambitions.

Source: Washington Post December 10, 2018 17:37 UTC