{"id":1074,"date":"2016-03-07T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/03\/07\/bloomberg-wont-take-risk\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:26","slug":"bloomberg-wont-take-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Won&#8217;t Take The Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9692,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bloombergview.com\\\/articles\\\/2016-03-07\\\/the-2016-election-risk-that-michael-bloomberg-won-t-take&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nJust a few minutes ago, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2016-03-07\/the-2016-election-risk-that-michael-bloomberg-won-t-take\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced he would not run<\/a> as a third-party candidate for President of the United States. He acknowledged the reality that a three way race might throw the presidential election into the House of Representatives where the (evil, gun-totin&#8217; bitter clingers) &#8220;party loyalists&#8221; aka Republicans hold sway. He said that was a risk he just could not take.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>As the race stands now, with Republicans in charge of both Houses, there is a good chance that my candidacy could lead to the election of Donald Trump or Senator Ted Cruz. That is not a risk I can take in good conscience.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then goes on to trash both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>The other risk that he didn&#8217;t acknowledge is that even if the election didn&#8217;t go to the House of Representatives that a vote for him is a vote that Hillary Clinton wouldn&#8217;t get. I can&#8217;t think of many Trump or Cruz voters who would have voted from Bloomberg as an alternative to either Trump or Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Hillary has gone all in for gun control, does anyone want to bet that Bloomberg&#8217;s PAC Independence USA won&#8217;t be doing mega-ads for Hillary and against any Republican? That&#8217;s a bet I wouldn&#8217;t take with any amount of money.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few minutes ago, former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he would not run as a third-party candidate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1735,203],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-presidential-election","tag-michael-bloomberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}