周日早上，前纽约市长迈克·布隆伯格宣布他将竞选总统，据报道，这是他最近正在考虑的正式举措。
77岁的布隆伯格在推特上说:“我正在竞选总统，以击败唐纳德·特朗普，重建美国。”。“我相信我在商业、政府和慈善事业方面的独特经历将使我能够赢得胜利并发挥领导作用。”
他分享了一段视频，讲述了他从一个中产阶级家庭晋升为一名商业高管，再晋升为市长，并在9.11事件后领导纽约市进行重建。这段视频展示了特朗普大厦的一张照片，讲述者称彭博将使美国成为一个“富人将缴纳更多税款，挣扎中的中产阶级将得到公平份额”的国家彭博的推特包含了一个链接到他的竞选网站。
布隆伯格在他的竞选网站上说:“我们不能再承受特朗普总统不计后果和不道德的行为了。他代表着对我们国家和我们价值观的生存威胁。如果他赢得另一个任期，我们可能永远无法从损害中恢复过来。”
彭博最初表示他不会竞选总统，但据报道，他重新考虑了，因为他不相信目前的民主党候选人能够在2020年选举中击败特朗普。
这位前市长是中间派，也是前副总统乔·拜登的替代者。据Politico报道，作为一个迟到者，彭博将采取一种策略，把重点放在将于3月3日在超级星期二投票的15个州，而不是试图在早期投票的州与其他候选人竞争。
民主党候选人对彭博的批评甚至在他正式宣布之前就开始了。
周五，伯尼·桑德斯参议员分享了布隆伯格为周一开始的竞选广告花费3000多万美元的报道，并指责他试图“购买”选举。
桑德斯在推特上写道:“我对迈克尔·布隆伯格或任何亿万富翁认为他们可以绕过政治进程并花费数千万美元购买选举的想法感到厌恶。”。“如果你不能为你的候选人赢得基层支持，你就没有资格竞选总统。”
联合国气候行动特使迈克尔·布隆伯格于2019年9月23日在纽约联合国气候行动峰会上发表讲话。斯蒂芬妮·基思/盖蒂
彭博是他的金融和媒体公司彭博资讯的首席执行官，在2006年排名第九福布斯2019年亿万富翁名单上，截至周日，他的净资产为541亿美元。据报道，相比之下，特朗普9月份的净资产为31亿美元福布斯。
彭博已经向包括应对气候变化和枪支控制在内的问题捐赠了大约80亿美元。
从2002年到2013年，他担任了三届纽约市长，也是任职时间那么长的仅有的四人之一。他毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学，并在哈佛商学院获得硕士学位。
MIKE BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTIAL BID 'TO DEFEAT DONALD TRUMP AND REBUILD AMERICA'
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg on Sunday morning announced he is running for president, making official a move he was reportedly recently considering.
"I'm running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America," Bloomberg, 77, said in a tweet. "I believe my unique set of experiences in business, government, and philanthropy will enable me to win and lead."
He shared a video about his ascent from a middle class family to a business executive to the mayor who led New York City in rebuilding after 9/11. The clip shows a shot of Trump Tower while the narrator states that Bloomberg will make the U.S. a country "where the wealthy will pay more in taxes and the struggling middle class will get their fair share." Bloomberg's tweet included a link to his campaign website.
On his campaign site, Bloomberg said: "We cannot afford four more years of President Trump's reckless and unethical actions. He represents an existential threat to our country and our values. If he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage."
Bloomberg initially said he would not run for president, but reportedly reconsidered because he was not confident that the current pool of Democratic candidates could beat Trump in the 2020 election.
The former mayor is running as a centrist and alternative to former Vice President Joe Biden. A late entrant, Bloomberg is going with a strategy of focusing on the 15 states that will vote on Super Tuesday on March 3, instead of trying to compete with other candidates in early voting states, according to Politico.
Criticism of Bloomberg by Democratic candidates began even before he formally announced.
On Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders shared a report of Bloomberg spending more than $30 million for campaign ads to run starting on Monday and accused him of trying to "buy" the election.
"I'm disgusted by the idea that Michael Bloomberg or any billionaire thinks they can circumvent the political process and spend tens of millions of dollars to buy elections," Sanders tweeted. "If you can't build grassroots support for your candidacy, you have no business running for president."
U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Action Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations on September 23, 2019, in New York City.
Bloomberg, who is CEO of his financial and media company Bloomberg LP, was No. 9 in Forbes' billionaires list in 2019 and his net worth as of Sunday was $54.1 billion. By comparison, Trump's net worth was $3.1 billion in September, according to Forbes.
Bloomberg has donated about $8 billion to issues including combating climate change and gun control.
He served three terms as New York City mayor, from 2002 to 2013, and is one of only four people to occupy the office that long. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
